Liberia <^ 



Pleiocarpa spec. : a shrub with slender branches, oblong to lanceolate 

 long-acuminate leaves about 3 in. by ij in. on short petioles, 

 and globose or globose-ellipsoid berries from the old wood, 

 the berries being .shortly stalked, 'j — ^i in. long, yellow and 

 mottled with brown and enclosing i — 4 seeds ; Batombatown, 

 ]Vh)'te (drawing). — This is one of the plants which according 

 to Whyte are used in collecting rubber. 



*Polyadoa (?) simii, Stapf{nov. spec.) : a glabrous shrub with slender 

 branches ; leaves elliptic, shortly acuminate, sub-obtuse at the 

 base, 4 — 5 in. by 2 — 2f in., coriaceou.s, pale green, with 7—8 

 slender oblique side-nerves and faint loose veins and a petiole 

 \ in. long ; flowers in terminal and axillary subsessile small 

 dense clusters, shortly pedicelled ; sepals coriaceous with 

 membranous tips, coated with resin within, rounded, very 

 small ; corolla over h in. long, tube somewhat longer than the 

 narrow lobes ; anthers just above the middle of the tube ; 

 ovary 2-carpellary glabrous with 4 ovules in two rows in each 

 carpel ; fruit, according to a drawing by Sim, consisting of 2 

 divaricate oblong yellow follicles produced into long slender 

 beaks, 2^ by | in.; Sino District, Sim, 16!— Sim states that 

 it yields good rubber. It has quite the habitus of a Polyadoa, 

 but differs in the small number of ovules from the other species 

 of that genus. As, moreover, the fruit of Polyadoa is unknown, 

 the <yeneric position of the plant is somewhat doubtful. No 

 species of Polyadoa and their immediate allies {^Pleiocarpa and 

 Huntcria) are known to yield rubber. 



Rauwolfia cumminsii, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with slender quad- 

 rangular branches, membranous leaves in whorls of 3—4, small 

 flowers (not quite \ in. long) in lax umbel-like glabrous in- 

 florescences, and small red single or paired compressed drupes ; 

 Sino Basin, Wliyie ! 



*R. liberiensis, Stapf (Plate 254; : a glabrous shrub with terete 

 branches, membranous leaves in whorls of 4, small flowers 

 (about \ in. long) in lax umbel-like glabrous inflorescences ; 

 fruit unknown; Sino Basin, ]Vliyte\ 



R. vomitoria, Afz. {syn. R. senegambiai, DC.) : a glabrous shrub 

 or small tree with quadrangular branches, membranous leaves 

 in whorls of 3—4, small white flowers (about 3 in. long) in 

 umbel-like much-branched finely downy inflorescences and 



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