PLATE 2762. 
POLYADOA UMBELLATA, Stap/. 
ApocyNnacEs. Tribe PLUMERIOIDES. 
P. umbellata, Stapf, in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. part i. p. 103 ; ab altera 
specie —* foliis majoribus, nervis magis remotis, ovulis numerosi- 
oribus differt. 
abe 24-30 ped. alta, ligno durissimo ; ramuli novelli admodum 
compressi, exsiccando nigrescentes vel rufo »-fuscescentes, adulti lenti- 
cellis sparsis verruculosi. Jolia ate vel lato-oblo one breviter 
gue infra admodum prominente, nervis secondariis utrinque circiter 
10-14 obliquis ultra rsticrsiies rectis utrinque (imprimis vero infra) 
prominulis, venis inconspicuis ; petiolus —{ poll. longus. /Vores in 
fasciculis subsessilibus, rarius "distine te pedunculatis, terminalibus vel 
pseudoterminalibus multitloris vel in inflorescentiis umbelliformibus 
congestis ; pedicelliad 1} lin. longi. Calyx resinosus ; sepala rotundato- 
ovata, fc) tusa, coriacea, intus glandulis numerosis cylindricis obsita, 
r 
; Pie 
; Eh lat et, 
Kautschuklianen i in “J ahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt, xvii. (1899), 
3. Beih. p. 190. 
Wrst AFR ICA : oo Ibadan Forest, Punch, 12 ameroons, 
8; Ca 
Mbanga Mountai gl aang f, 2300 feet, Staudt, 130 ; ; Bipinde, 
500 feet, Zenker, 1707, 729. 
T 
Elliotiz. T have already called attention to it tego ‘Journ. Linn. Soc.’ 
xxx. Loe ie Ae ; but as the material then at my disposal was very 
oly 
adoa are the eerie position of the inflorescences, the submembranous 
g. 1, portion of calyx and interior — ae — of corolla, paar inser- 
ef stamens and pistil; 3 and 4, anthers in different position; 5, nae r part of 
pick and stigma ; 6, longitudinal section ei capa to show ovules 
