Liberia <«- 



lobes 2 — 2h ill- long) and paired baccate follicles of the size 

 of a small orange; Sino Basin, S/;//, 6! 8! 



C. crassa, S/a/if {sy/i. Taberna^montana crassa, Bent/i., Plate 257) : a 

 small tree or shrub with elliptic or oblong leaves (6 — 9 in. by 

 3 — 4h '"•) s'lcl 12 — i5-flo\vered corymbs of shortly pedicelled 

 white flesh)- flowers (calyx up to ,l in. long, corolla tube about 

 I in. long) and paired baccate follicles of -the size of a child's 

 head, " the seeds resting in an alm.ost woody pulp " fVogel) ; 

 Grand Basa, Voge/, 21!; Diuklagc, 1434!; Sino Basin, Whytc, 

 19-' — -This was credited with yielding part of the rubber of 

 Upper Guinea, but experiments made with a specimen cultivated 

 in Ceylon, under the name of Tabciihcuioutaiia crassa \\ere 

 unsuccessful. A few other species of Coiiopharyiigia have also 

 had the reputation of being rubber-producing ; but our actual 

 knowledge on this point is of the slightest, and rather suggests 

 that the rubber derived from them is cither useless or only 

 obtainable in small quantities. 



*Voacanga caudiflora, 5/r?//' (Plate 258) : a glabrous shrub with slender 

 branches, papery lanceolate leaves, nodding few-flowered in- 

 florescences, tubular calyces, | in. long, and yellow (?) corollas 

 (tube \ in. long, lobes tail-like f in. long) ; Kakatown, WJiytel 



V. bracteata, var. lanceolata, Stapf: a shrub similar to the preceding, 

 but with a shorter calyx {\ in. long); Kakatown, WJiyte\ and 

 smaller corollas (tube \ in. long, yellow, lobes broad reflexed, 

 violet-brown, ,V in. long) ; Sino Basin, Wliytc ! Sim ! 



*Pleioceras whytei, Stapf (Plate 259) : a glabrous shrub with thin 

 ovate to elliptic leaves and many-flowered panicles of rather 

 small flowers with a fringe of more or less thread-like appendages 

 in the throat ; near Sino River, WJiytc 



Strophanthus gratus, Franch. (Plate 219): a climbing glabrous shrub 

 often of very considerable dimensions with coriaceous oblong 

 leaves, 3 — 6 in. by 2 — 3 in., terminal few to 12-flowered cymes 

 of handsome funnel-shaped flowers, white or tinged with pink 

 with narrow purple scales in the throat (tube \\ in. long, lobes 

 |— 1 in. long) and with di\aricate follicles, 8J, — 15 in. by i-| — 2 

 in., containing glabrous spindle-shaped seeds bearing a plumose 

 awn, 2 — 3 in. long, at one end, the hairs of the plume being 

 turned aw ay from the seed ; Monrovia, Kransc ; Kakatown, 

 WJiytc ! — The seeds are the most important source of strophan- 



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