Tab. 6963. 

 LANDOLPHIA flobida. 



Native of Tropical Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Apoctneje. — Tribe Cabisse^;. 

 Genus Landoltiiia, Beaut). ; {Benlh. et lloolc.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 092.) 



IjXNDOLPHIA. florida .; alte scandens, cirrliifera, glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis 

 amplis ovato-oblongis obtusis v. acutis integerrimis basi rotundatis v. subcor- 

 datis, nervis utrinque coste 0-8, cymis pedunculatis multifloris glabris pubes- 

 ivntibus tomentosisve, floribus breviter pedieellatis, bracteolis minutis ovato- 

 oblongis obtusis pedicello appressis, calycis parvi lobis oblongis, corolla? tubo 

 gracili pollicari stramineo intus villoso, lobis tubo seqnilongis lineari-oblongis 

 obtusis, ovario annulo piloso eincto, stigmate fusiformi apiee 2-dentato. 



L. florida, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 411; Wain. Ann. vol. iii. p. 29; 

 hotschy Plant. Jinn, t. 13 A ; Thomson in Appendix to SpeJre's Journ. of 

 Discovery of Source of Nile, p. 639; Grant in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. 

 p. 107. Christy, New Commercial Products, N. i. p. 8, with a plate. 



L. cotnorensis, Benlh. in Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 093. 



Vabea comorensis, Bojer Sort. Mdurii. p. 207 ; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 228. 



Willuglibeia cordata, Klotzsch hi Peters Mosamb. But. p. 281. 



This is the India-rubber producing tree of Tropical Africa, 

 a plant known to Botanists long before its commercial value 

 had attracted attention to it. The first notice of it is by the 

 .late M. Bojer, of Mauritius, who published it in 1836 under 

 the name of Vahea comorensis, from specimens cultivated 

 in the Mauritius Botanical Garden, and which were brought 

 from Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands. In 1848 it 

 was described by Bentham in the Niger Flora, from speci- 

 mens collected by the lamented Vogel, Botanist to the ill- 

 fated Niger Expedition of Captain Trotter. Bentham 

 recognized it as a true Landolphia, but coming from the 

 west coast of Africa, he could not have supposed that it 

 was referable to what was supposed to be another genus, 

 Vahea, and which was a native of the east coast. In 1863 

 it was published as WUlwjhb<>ia cordata, by Klotzsch, 

 from specimens brought from Johanna Island, the locality 

 whence Bojer' s specimens were obtained. In 1867 it was 

 fio-ured by Kotschy in the account of the plants collected 

 by Madame Tinne in the Soudan, under its proper name 

 nov. 1st, 1887. 



