Funtumia. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE& (STAPF), 191 
the forests of the Agome Mountains, and in the Boem country, ex Schlechter. 
Southern Nigeria: Bonny, Kalbreyer, 82! Opobo, Holland, 157! Adiabo, Holland, 
294! Cross River, at Itu, Holland, 5! and at Ekure, Holland, 160! Cameroons : 
forest near Victoria, Preuss, 1382! Bipinde, Zenker, 2280! 2280a! Upper basin 
of the Mungo River, ex Schlechter. Fernando Po, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, K/aine, 662! Lower Congo: Kisantu, 
Gillet ! 
The rubber obtained from this species is sticky like birdlime, and therefore 
worthless, 
2. F. elastica, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900,2. A tree, up to 
100 ft. high ; trunk erect, cylindric; bark pale, spotted; branchlets 
terete, blackish when dry. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acumi- 
nate, attenuate at the base, 5-9 in. long, 11-24 in. broad, undulate, 
quite glabrous, foveolate in the leaf axils ; secondary nerves 7~11 on each 
side, oblique; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2~5 lin. long. Cymes 
shortly peduncled, many-flowered, dense, glabrous ; peduncle up to 3 lin. 
long ; bracts small, broad-ovate, obtuse or subacute ; pedicels 14—24 lin. 
long. Calyx 2-21 lin. long; sepals very broad, ovate or rotundate ;. 
intracalycular glands usually 2 with each sepal. Corolla white or 
yellowish, conical in bud, up to 6 lin. long; tube constricted above the 
base, 34-4 lin, long, glabrous without ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 24-3 lin. 
long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube. Disc 
»-partite; segments crenate, slightly exceeding the ovary.  Follicles. 
oblong-clavate when closed, obtuse or rotundate at the apex, woody, 
obscurely keeled along the sides, 6 in. long. Seeds 6-9 lin. long; awn 
1}~23 in. long, naked to the middle, hairs up to 2} lin. long.—Schlechter, 
Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 236; Stapf in Hook. Ie. Pl. tt. 2694— 
95; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. x. 74-76.  Kickaia elastica, Preuss. 
in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353~360, t. i.; Warburg, 
Kautschukpfl. 112, 153 and Plant. 4 Caoutch. 205; Vilb. in Warb. 
Plant. 4 Caoutch. 204, fig. 15, 206, 207; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. 109— 
120; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 633, 634, 743-747. XK. 
Yricana, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (the fruit: 
only); K. Schum. in Notizbl. Kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217-221 
with plate (the fruit only); Warb. in Tropenfi. i. 99-103 with plate 
(the fruit only) ; Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon. i. 12-19, 41-47, fig. 2 
(the fruit only); Jumelle, Les Plant. 4 Caoutchouc, 68-73, fig. 10 
(fruit only); Thonner in De Wild. & Durand, Pl. Thonner. Congol. 
xu. ; Henriques, Der Kautschuk, 18, t.iii.; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 110- 
112 and Plant. & Caoutch. 200-205 partly ; not of Benth. 
, Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Mampong Hills, Johnson, 255! Sehwhi 
(Sefwhi) and Wam Districts, Armitage! Ashanti : Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 
Lagos: Jebu District, Millen, 178! Ibadan, Oludi! forests between 
Ishagamo and Ibadan, Schlechter, 12319! and without precise locality, Punch ! 
Denton! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Holland, 162! Lloyd! Abarogba, on 
the Cross River, Holland, 158! 159! 161! between Insofan and Obeyon, Holland, 
243! Cameroons: right bank of the Mungo River, between Malende and Nyoke, 
and between Nyoke and Moyoka, Preuss, 1381! forests on the Upper Mungo River 
