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nervis secundariis utrinque 9-10 (raro 11), subpatulis sub margine 
arcuato-connexis, tertiariis venisque inconspicuis; petiolus 4-8 
mm. (2-4 lin.) longus. Cyme breviter pedunculate, multiflora, 
congeste, glabre ; pedunculus 6 mm. (3 lin.) longus; bractez 
mm. 
longi. Flores a ae ; alabastra subcylindrica,’ paululo 
curvata, 14-20 mm. (7-10 lin.) longa. Calyx 35 mm. (1% lin.) 
ongus ; segmenta 1 tite pels vel elliptica, Bio minute ciliolato 
excepto glabra ; ; glandulae plures cum noquoque segmento, 
lobulate. Corolle tubus medio ‘vel paule infra constrictus, 
6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) longus, glaber; lobi oblongo- oe 10-12 mm. 
(5-6 lin.) longi. A ti medio tubo vel paulo supra inserta ; 
filamenta intus nute tomentella ; anthere acuminate, apice 
minute pilosule. gs ee d-lobus vel ad basin 5-partitus, 
ovario 4 brevior. Fructus folliculi fusiformes, acute acuminati, 
semiteretes, ventre applanati, in lateribus utrinque longitudin- 
aliter angulati, ad 20 cm. (8 poll.) longi, angulis eae a sutura 
(14-2 lin.) distantibus. Semina glabra, 12-16 mm. (6-8 lin.) 
longa ; arista 3-4 cm. (1}-1} poll.) longa, basi Gai pills 6-7 cm, 
(23 poll.) longis.—Schlechter, West-Afr. Kautschuk Exped., 236 ; 
Stape i in Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 2696-2697, and in FI]. Trop. Afr. iv. 
190; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Col. x. 74. Kickria gy 
Benth. in Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 1276; Henriques in Bol, 
Broter. x. (1892) 141; Stapfin Journ. Linn. Soc., xxx. (1894), 90, 
and in Kew Bull., 1895, 244 cum icone*; K. Schum. in Notizbl, 
Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, i., 217-221 cum icone*; Warb. in 
Zeitschr. f. trop. Landwirthsch. (Tropenpfl.) i. 99-103, cum icone® 
and paunouukya. 110; Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Col. i. 12- 19, 41-47, 
fig. 1,2and 14; Preuss in Tropenpii. iii. 65-71; Jumelle, Les Plantes 
a Boaiskoe. 68-73, fig. 1O* ; Preuss in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. und 
Mus. Berl. ii. 353-360, t. ii. ; Schlechter in Tropenpfi. iv. 326-330, 
et West-Afr. Kautsehuk Bae ay 41, 158, 160, 194, 202, 206, 239, 
236, 307, fig. on p. 238 ; De Wildeman in Rev. Cult. Col. vii., 633, 
634, 747. K. Yankeri i, K. Schum. 1. c. iii, 81. K. Gilletit De 
Wildeman, 1. c. 744 ; 
Wrst TROPICAL AFRICA. Sierra Leone, without precise 
locality, S colt Elliot! Haydon Cores and seeds) ! ! near Kukuna 
carcies River, Scott Elliott, 4506! (fruit-bearing branch, 
with almost Shoe green and quite eon leave es) ; on Ree iver, 
81 Basa h 
Sela Adje Were, poceddtng to Hi sie Lower Rigéria! Spans 
Kalbreyer, 82! agent leaves, open follicles and seeds; the 
follicles are rather coriaceous than in the other specimens). 
Opobo, Holland, Tt ' “Adi abo, Holland, 294! between Ekuke an 
Abaragba, together with P. elastica, according to Holland. Crone 
River, at Itu, Holland, 5! Ekure, Holland, 160! Cameroons, 
* Descriptione et figuris fructuum exceptis. 
