PLATE 2756. 
LANDOLPHIA PETERSIANA, Dyer. 
ApocynacEx. Tribe PLUMERIOIDE®. 
Landolphia petersiana, Dyer in Kew Report, 1880, p. 42 ; Stapf, Flora 
Trop. Africa, iv. p. scandenti affinis differt corollae tubo quam 
lobis multo breviore, folioram nervis minus numerosis 
Arbuscula ope cymarum cirrhiformium scandens, novellis ramulisque 
sa 
us minusve ochraceo-velutinis, ramis nigrescentibu p is 
Folia oblonga vel oblongo obovata, 15 1. longa, ?—2 poll. lata, apice 
obtusiuscula, a ] vissime acuminata, basi obtusa, interdum 
utrinque plus minusve rotundata, chartacea, supra saturate- subtus szepe 
flavido-viridia, crebre reticulato. venulosa, utrinque sparsim puberula 
deinde glaberrima. Panicula longe pedunculata, laxe thyrsoidea, 
pedunculo 2-5 poll. longo, ramis paucis patentibus, deinde deflexis, 
capitulis ferrugineo- -pubescentibus. Flores sessiles, capitatim congesti ; 
alabastra } poll. longa. Sepala lanceolata, acuta. oroll tubo 
canescenti inferne dilatato, lobis tubum subwequantibus lineari-lanceo- 
latis acutis giabris margine fimbriatis. Anthere lineari-oblonge, 
Fructus globosus, ad 2} poll. diametro, denique le a 
onga.—L, 8 candens vars. petersiana, rotundifolia et china 
niana, Hallier f., Kautsehuklianen Be ahrb. urg. Wissen 
Anstalt XVil. (1890), 3. Beih. ‘cn 83 ; Aneylobothrys "petersiana ‘et 
A. ro tundifolia, Pierre in aris 
lughbeia petersiana et W. senensis, “Blotesch i in Peters, Reise Miusssiabs 
2 . 
Bot. i. pp. 281, 282 
Tropica, East Arrica: British pestle Africa to the mouth of the 
Zambesi, iors the typical form was fou 
ee 
The rubber of Landolphia petersiana does not coagulate sponta- 
neously on exposure to the air like that of Z. Kirkii, ‘the juice being 
a 
some other way similar to that used in Madagascar or the Brazils. 
The product is said, however, to be of an inferior quality. —W. T. 
THISELTON- DYER 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch—xatural size; 2,a flower; 3, a stamen; 4, a pistil— 
all salads 5, fruit —natural size. 
