190 LXXXIV, APOCYNACE& (STAPF). [ Funtumia. 
stipules 0; axillary glands small, numerous. Flowers small or middle- 
sized, in congested axillary cymes, whitish or yellowish. 
Species 3, endemic, 
Flower-buds cylindric, 7-9 lin. long; corolla-lobes 
linear, distinctly longer than the tube. . - Ll. # africana, 
Flower-buds conical, 3-6 lin. long; corolla-lobes 
oblong, shorter than the tube. 
Corolla-tube glabrous without, constricted near the 
base; disc exceeding the ovary, 5-crenulate. 2. F, elastica. 
Corolla-tube very minutely pubescent without, 
constricted just below the middle; disc 
shorter than the ovary, 5-lobed . = . 3&8. F. latifolia. 
1, F. africana, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. A tree 15-80 ft. 
high; trunk cylindric; bark grey, smooth; branchlets terete or com- 
pressed below the nodes, more or less black when dry. Leaves oblong, 
rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, attenuated or 
rounded at the base, 5—9 in. long, 14-34 in. broad; margins undulate, 
quite glabrous above, usually pubescent and always efoveolate in the 
leaf-axils; secondary nerves 9-10 (rarely 11) on each side, oblique; 
veins obscure ; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Cymes shortly peduncled, many- 
flowered, dense, glabrous; peduncle 3 lin. long; bracts small, ovate, 
acute or subacute; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 1} lin. long; 
sepals broad-ovate or elliptic, each with several glands at the base. 
Corolla yellowish, subcylindric and 7-9 lin. long in bud; tube con- 
stricted just below the middle, 3-4 lin. long, glabrous ; lobes linear, 
5-6 lin. long. Dise 5-lobed or 5-partite, shorter than the ovary. 
Follicles spindle-shaped, acutely acuminate, semiterete, sides slightly 
keeled. Seeds 6-8 lin. long; awn 14-13? in. long, naked at the base, 
hairs 24 lin. long.—Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2696-2697 ; Schlechter, 
Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 236; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. x. 
(1902), 74. Kickxia africana, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1276; Henriques 
in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 141; Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 90, and in 
Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (excl. the fruit); K. Scbum. 1 
Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217-221 with figures (excl. the 
fruit); Warb. in Tropenpfl. i. 99-103 with figures (excl. the fruit) ; 
Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon. i. 12-19, 41-47, figs. 1 and 2; Preuss? 
‘Tropenpfi. iii. 65-71; Jumelle, Les Plant. & Caoutch. 68-73, fig. 10 (excl. 
the fruit); Preuss in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353-360, 
t. 2; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 633, 634 and 747; Schlechter 
in Tropenpf. iv. 326-330, and 41, 158, 160, 194, 202, 206, 235, 236, 288 
(with fig.), 307; Vilb. in Warb. Plant. & Caoutch, 201, fig. 14 
K. africana, vars. Klainii and iners, Pierre ex Stapf in Hook. Te. Pl. 
tt. 2696-2697. K. Zenkeri, K. Schum. in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. 
Berlin, iii, 81. X. Gilletii, De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 744. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Kukuna, on the Scarcies River, Scott- 
Elliot, 4506! Bagru River, Mann, 817! and without precise locality, Haydon! 
Ivory Coast: Daban, Jolly, 174! 1691! Gold Coast; Sehwhi (Sefwhi) and Wam 
District, Armitage ! Koforidua, Johnson, 434! East Akim, Johnson, 692! Togo: ™ 
forest on Amedjove Mountain, Schlechter, 12979 (ex Schumann) ; very commo? ul 
