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virgin forest near Victoria, Preuss, 1382! Bipinde, Buli, Zenker, 
2280! 2534! Gaboon, Librev ille, pati 662! Fernando Po, 
Mann! Lower Congo, Rineaite Gillet 
Flowers were ravens in December in the Cameroons, in 
January in Sierra Leo n January and February in Gaboon, 
early in April (in a se ghee state) on the Cross River. Th 
fruits of the previous year seem to ripen at about the same time. 
This tree appears to be common in the hill forests of the Agome 
Mts. and in the Boém Couniry, Togoland (Schlechter), in the coast 
Ae of the cata ns (Dr. Preu nes)» a in the basin of the 
clai o have dis eae a lan identical with 
F. ‘Weiais of I Pieoville still farther south, at Kakamoeka, on the 
Kouila River; but he remarks that the fruits are rather longer 
and the stamens somewhat differently shaped. 
_K. Zenkeri was supposed to differ from Funtumia africana in © 
the ont corolla-lobes and the shape of the disc; there is, 
however, in my opinion, no difference whatever in these respects. 
K. Gilletii, on the other hand, was distinguished from PF. africana 
on account of the flowers bein ng smaller; but here ined I find 
that the size of the corollas comes well within the range of 
variation exhibited by the flowers of F. africana. There is also 
no or tes pete in a raat me unless the fruits should be found 
to afford m tangible characters, we shall have to maeiser 
K. Gilletii 2 ‘identical with P. africa 
The rubber obtained from this species is sticky like bird-lime, 
and therefore worthless 
2. F. elastica, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc., 1900, 2. Arbor ad 
30 m. ( ped.) alta. Trwncus erectus, cylindricus ; ; cortex 
extus ee maculatus ; Sores eretes, exsiccando rage rent : 
latex copiosus, coagulan massam elasticam haud viscosam 
reddens. Folia petiolata ; ‘aniue oblonga vel lanceolato-oblonga, 
basi attenuata, apice in acumen angustum plerumque acutum 
contracta, 12-21 em. (5-9 poll.) longa, 3-6 cm. (1}-2} poll.) 
lata, integerrima, margin e conspicue undulata et exsiccando 
peerings glaberrima, sicca fusca, subtus pallidior, in axillis imter 
m et rate ce distincte foveolata, nervis secundariis 
e 
airinga I i ecimine “ Preuss, 1381,” in ceteris 
plerums ue 8-9) subpatulis sub margine pe retar connexis, 
tertiariis venisque inconspicuis ; petiolus 4-10 mm. (2-5 lin.) 
longus. Cyme breviter pedunculate, multiflora, ele glabre ; 
pedunculus ad 6 mm. (3 lin.) longus; bractee parvee, late ovate, 
obtuse vel subacute ; pedicelli 3-5 mm. (14-25 lin.) longi. Flores 
albi vel Perkin alabastra nee brevia, ad 12 mm. (6 lin.) 
longa. Calyx m. (2-2} lin.) longus ; segmenta latissima, 
ovata vel rotundata ; ; panne Sicaeh mque 2 cum unoquoqgue 
segmento, Corolle tubus supra basin constrictus, 7-8 mm. (35-4 
lin.) longus, glaber ; lobi oblongi, hasan 5-6 mm. (23-3 lin.) longi. 
ridvcthattae —. me ediu um tubum in filamenta intus minute 
mentella; anthere acuminate, spice mininte pilosule. Discus 
pono Sreseentints crenatis, ovarium paulo superans. Fructis 
