598 ADDENDA. 
5. Carpodinus dulcis, Sabine. Add: Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 
Hist. Nat. Par. vi. (1900) 317, 423. 
5a. Carpodinus oocarpa, Stapf. A climbing shrub with pseudo- 
axillary flagelliform tendrils ; young branchlets softly hairy, (tomentum 
consisting of short subadpressed and more or less numerous long rust- 
coloured hairs), at length glabrescent, brown with minute lenticels. 
Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, distinctly and often abruptly acuminate 
(acumen 4-7 lin. long, slender, acute or subacute), minutely but 
distinctly cordate, very rarely rounded at the base, 24-5 in. long, 14-2 
in. broad, coriaceous, usually sparingly fulvo-hirsute on the midrib 
below otherwise glabrous except when quite young; midrib narrowly 
channelled above, much raised below; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, 
slightly channelled above, raised below, connected by bold arches rather 
distant from the margin ; petiole 1-3 lin. long. Cymes axillary, sessile, 
contracted, fulvo-hirsute, few-flowered ; flowers sessile ; bracts about 6 
with each flower, oblong to lanceolate, the inner adpressed to the calyx, all 
fulvo-hirsute, 14 lin. long. Calyx 14-14 lin. long; sepals 4, ovate, 
acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube slender, 4} lin, long, widened above the 
insertions of the stamens, perfectly glabrous without, with a few hairs 
in the widened part within ; lobes narrow-lanceolate, as long as the 
tube or slightly longer, twisted. Ovary densely hirsute above the 
middle ; style very slender, minutely crispo-puberulous except at the 
hirsute base, 4 lin. long. Fruit according to a drawing by Whyte more 
or less egg-shaped oblong or ellipsoid, obtuse, 24-4 in. long, 14-2 in. 
across, yellow, rough transversely rugose. Seeds 30-60. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia; within 20 miles of Karka Town, 
Whyte! Sinou basin, Whyte, 9! 3! Greenville, Sim, 7! 27! 
Very closely allied to C. dulcis, and only differing from it in the leaves having 
cordate bases and fewer more distant nerves, slightly larger flowers and egg-shaped 
or ellipsoid, perfectly obtuse fruits. 
One of Sim’s specimens, numbered 7 , has quite glabrous leaves with rounded 
base and almost glabrous branches. This yields, according to Whyte, good rubber. 
_ 6. Carpodinus hirsuta, Hua. Add: Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 
Hist. Nat. Par. vi. (1900), 423; Arnaud, in Bull, Mus, Hist. Nat. 
Par. viii. (1902), 70; De Wild, & Gentil, Lian. Caoutch. Congo, 101, 
fig. 8, B. 
\, 0% Carpodinus globulifera, A. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 
316. A shrub, climbing with hook-branched tendrils, springing from 
the branch-forks ; young branches stout, hirsute or hispid with reddish 
spreading hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, cuspidate or rounded at 
the apex, slightly sinuate at the base, 14-44 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, 
coriaceous, drying blackish-brown above, sparingly hirsute above, soon 
glabrescent except the midrib, densely and softly hairy below, midrib very 
finely channelled above ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, rather 
spreading, slender ; petiole stout, 21 lin. long, densely hirsute. Flowers 
in dense hirsute sessile globose clusters in the leaf-axils; bracts ovate, 
