104 LXXXIV, APOCYNACEE (STAPF). | Polyadoa. 
umbellata, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 
Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 190. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Ibadan Forest, Punch, 138! Cameroons: Mbanga 
Mountain, near Lolodorf, 2300 ft., Staudt, 130! Bipinde, in forest, 500 ft., 
Zenker, 1707! 1729! 
2. P. Elliotii, Stapf. A shrub; branches slender, laterally 
compressed when young, drying blackish; lenticels very scanty, warty. 
Leaves ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to obtusely sub- 
acuminate, acute at the base, 3-5 in, long, 14-2 in. broad, subcoriaceous ; 
midrib channelled above, prominent beneath; secondary nerves up to 
20 on each side, with very similar parallel tertiary nerves between 
them, obliquely spreading, straight, fine, slightly raised on both sides; 
reticulation distinct, though faint, above, obscure beneath; petiole 4-9 
lin. long. Corymbs 5- to many-flowered, subsessile or distinctly 
peduncled, compact, terminal ; peduncle up to 5 lin. long; pedicels very 
short. Calyx slightly over } lin. long, very resinous ; sepals rotundate- 
ovate, obtuse, with cylindric glands within. Corolla-tube 24-35 
lin. long, pubescent within below the stamens; lobes oblong, obtuse, 
as long as or slightly longer or shorter than the tube. Anthers ovate- 
oblong, subobtuse, 2 lin. long. Ovules 10-12 in about 3 rows. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5690! and without 
precise lucality, Wulferth (?)! 
10. HUNTERIA, Roxb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 698. 
Calyx small; sepals almost free, acute, firm, obtusely keeled, with 
alpressed entire or lobed scale-like glands near the base within. 
Corolla salver-shaped; tube slightly widened above the middle, mouth 
constricted by a callous ring, naked; lobes overlapping to the left. 
Stamens inserted in the widened part of the tube; anthers free from 
the stigma, oblong-lanceolate ; cells obtuse at and dehiscing to the base. 
Disc 0. Carpels 2, free or slightly connate at the base; style filiform ; 
stigma at the level of the anthers, oblong-ellipsoid, subpapillose, with a 
distinct bifid apiculus; ovules collateral, 2 in each cell. Mericarps 
baccate, divaricate, or one frequently abortive, ellipsoid or globose, 
stipitate, apiculate or obtuse. Seeds 1 or 2 (and then plano-convex), sem! 
ellipsoid ; testa rather thick, almost fleshy; endosperm almost horny; 
cotyledons very thin, foliaceous, as long as the slender radicle.—Glabrous 
trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, glossy, with numerous faint sub- 
parallel nerves ; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands very minute or 0; 
axillary and terminal buds usually more or less coated with resin. 
Corymbs terminal or pseudo-axillary. 
A small genus of 4 species, 1 in East Africa, 3 in Ceylon, South India, and 
the Malayan region. 
1. H. africana, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 817. Young 
branches brown, soon grey. Leaves oblong or elliptic, obtuse, sometimes 
indistinctly acuminate, acute at the base, 3-4} in. long, 14-1 in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, very glossy above, dull beneath; lateral nerves about 
