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secondary nerves about 16 on each side, horizontal, faint, connected by 
submarginal arches; veins scarcely visible ; petiole channelled, 14-2 
lin. long. Panicles short, congested, axillary and pseudo-terminal, 
about 10-flowered, loose, shortly pubescent, about 1 lin. long. Sepals 
ovate-oblong, # lin. long, keeled, ciliate. Corolla white, glabrous; tube 
? lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse, 8 lin. long. Anthers exceeding the 
corolla-mouth. Ovary ovoid; style short. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Eastern Kwango ; banks of the Juma 
River, Gentil. 
The description exactly fits C. Mannii, with the exception of the inflorescence 
which is described as pubescent in C. Gentili, whilst it is perfectly glabrous in 
C. Mannii. 
14a, Clitandra membranacea, Stapf. A climbing perfectly 
glabrous shrub, with long very slender tendrils; branches very slender, 
terete, green, at length pale brown, lenticels very scattered, inconspicu- 
ous. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate (acumen 4-8 
lin. long, subacute or obtuse), minutely cordate at the base, 3-4 in. 
long, 14-1} in. broad, thin-papery ; midrib very slightly convex above, 
much more so below ; secondary nerves 7-9 on each side, very slender, 
oblique, connected by faint arches, like the loose veins very faintly 
raised on both sides; petioles up to 14 lin. long, rather broad at the 
base. Flowers solitary (always ?) in the leaf-axils, subsessile; bracts 
about 6, gradually increasing upwards, ovate, sparingly ciliolate. Calyx 
1 lin. long, green; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, sparingly and minutely 
ciliolate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, 5 lin. long in bud, greenish ; 
tube urceolate-campanulate, shortly exserted from the calyx; lobes 
linear, obtuse, 4 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments very short; anthers erect, ovate-lanceolate 
reaching to the corolla-mouth. Ovary oblong-conic, very minutely 
hairy ; style extremely short ; stigma conical. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia ; Greenville, Sim ! 
Some barren specimens, collected by Whyte in the Sinou Basin, with somewhat 
shorter and broader (elliptic) leaves and very fine long tendrils, evidently belong to 
this species. 
la. Carpodinus eetveldeana, De Wild. in De Wild. & Gentil, 
Lian. Caoutch. Congo, 107, t. xxiii. A strong liane; stems glabrous, 
8-12 in. in diam., bark brown, with numerous white lenticels. Leaves 
elliptic, cuneate at the base, acutely acuminate, 5-12 in. long, 1% to 
almost 4 in. broad, glabrous; midrib channelled above 3 secondary 
nerves 15 on each side, much raised, connected by submarginal arches ; 
veins rather indistinct; petiole 6-15 lin. long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit subglobose, truncate at the base, shortly or obscurely apiculate, 
3-7 in. long, subsessile ; rind yellowish-red, mottled with brown, thick, 
fleshy, smooth ; seeds 4—40 in a yellow pulp, 1 in. long, 6 lin. broad. 
South Central. Congo Free State: near the Lulua River, between Luebo 
and Luluabourg, Gentil, 60. 
De Wildeman suggests C, maxima as the nearest ally. 
