nag 
57 
folliculi a one oie apice obtusi vel rotundati, sectione 
transversa elliptica, plane a aperti oblongo-elliptici, ad 5 cm. (2 poll ) 
lati, + eiky ne lateribus vix longitudinaliter ee 5 ap cm 
(34-6 p longi. Semina glabra, 12-18 m . (6-9 lin.) longa ; 
( 
, Pp 
6 cm. "Oh poll.) longis. Redslonthtici, West-Afr, Kautschuk 
vii. 93, an Kautschuk Exped. 16-19, 96-101, 103, 
112, 113, D1. "aN, 936-247, 257, fig. on p. 99 and opp. pp. 164 and 
176; Warburg, Kautschukpfl. 110-112, 153; De Wildeman in 
Rev. Cult. Col. vii. Age 634, 743-747. -K. africana, Stapf in Kew 
Bull 1895, 244 cum icone* ; K. Schum. in i hea He Gart. und 
Berlin, i 317-221, cum icone*; Warb. in Zeitschr. f. trop. 
Vaniiwirthsch, (Tropenpfi.) i 99-103, cum ‘cotie* Kautschukpfi, 
: Plantes a caoutch. 200-205, partly ; Lecomte in 
Rev. Cult. Col. i. 12-19, 41-47, fig. 2* ; ; Jumelle, Les Plantes a 
Caoutchouc, ae fig. 10; * Thonner in De Wild. and Durand, 
Plant. omer Congol. xii.; Henriques, Der Kautschuk, 18 ; 
tabelle iii. ; Reintgen in Tropenpfl. vi. Beih. 2-3, 163-168 ; Zitzow 
in Tr ropenpfl. viii. 228-250, with <a on p. 232; “Stein in Tropenpfl. 
viii. 597-611; Soskin in Tropenpfi x. 32-39 ; nth. 
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA. oo about 40 miles up the 
Sind span Sim! Gold Coast, Mampong Hills, Johnson, 255! 
Sehwhi and Wawm District, ey oR pom branches and a 
branch bearing very young fruits). Ashanti, Kumassi, eileen 
217! (flowering branch, flowers young and partly deformed). 
Lagos, Jebu District, Millen, 178! 180! and without precise 
locality, stabs ! a and seeds, also flowering branches from 
plants grown he Trinidad Bot. Garden, raised from those 
seeds, comm. Hart !) Punch! Yoruba, Ibadan, Olubi! i 
follicle and seeds) ; dense forests between Shagamo and Ibadan, 
Schlechter, 12319. Lower Nigeria, rou Calabar, Lloyd ! (follicle 
With seeds) ; between Ekuke and Abarogba, Holland, 1581! 159! 
161! 162! (flowering and frui i ‘eae some of the latter 
IBY Upper lturi River, Arn sole asad. Mabive fan 
Dawe, 146! 
The rubber tree observed by Dr. Preuss near Barombi Station 
in the Cameroons Hinterland (Tropenpil. ii. 206) is, according to 
* Quoad fructus, 
