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dae coagulando massam elasticam haud viscosam reddens. Folia 
petio : lamina oblon el lanceolato-oblonga, basi attenuata, apice 
in acumen angustum Tae ue acutum contracta, 5-9 poll. longa, 
costam et nervos secundarios i foveolata (domatiis instructa), 
nervis secundariis utrinque 7-11 subpatulis sub margine arcuatim 
connexis, tertiariis venisque Sgenasiont petiolus 2—5 lin. longus. 
yme breviter pedunculate, multiflore, congeste, glabra ; pedun- 
alabastra ie brevia, ad 6 lin. longa. Calyx 2-2} lin. longus ; 
segmenta latissima, ovata vel rotundata ; glandule plerumque 2 cum 
unoquoque segmento. Corolle tubus supra basin constrictus, 34-4 lin. 
longus, glaber ; lobi oblongi, obtusi, 25—3 lin. longi. Sianeics infra 
medium tubum inserta ; filamenta intus minute tomentella ; antherz 
aperti oblongo-elliptici, ad 2 poll. ~ lignosi, in lateribus vix longi- 
tudinaliter angulati, circa 6 poll. long emina 6-9 lin onga ; arista 
13-27 poll. longa, ad medium nuda, lis ad 24 poll. longis.—Kichwia 
dustin, Preuss in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, ii. pp. 353-360, 
ts i. ; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. pp. 109-120; DeWildeman in Rev. Cult. 
Col. vii. pp. 633, 634, and 743-747. K. africana, Stapf in Kew Bull. 
1895, cum icone * ; K. Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, 
i. pp. 217-221, cum icone * ; Warb. in co f. trop. Landwirthsch. 
ee Ei Pp. 99-103, cum icone * ; Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Col. 
i. pp. 12-19, 41-47, fig. 2*; J umelle, ate Plantes & Caoutchoue, 
PP. 68-73, fig. 10*; non Ben th. 
West Arrica. Gold Coast, Mampong hills, Johnson. Sefeohi and 
Wan District, Armitage. Ashanti ti, Kumassi, Cummins, 217. gos, 
Jehu District, Mi/len, 178. Yoruba, Ibadan, Olubi ; dense forests near 
pcg and Thadan, Schlechter. Lox wer — Old Calabar, arate 
River, pee Malende he vais. and between N ba and 
Moyoka, Preuss, 1381 ; forests on the Upper Mungo River as far as 
the Bakossi mt a, ‘chlechter ; plentiful in the basin of the Ngoko 
and Dscha, Schlechter 
At a meeting of the Linnean Society, on December 7, 1899, I pointed 
out that the African species described under Kickeia differed very 
essentially from the Malayan species of Kickeia, and I proposed then 
aio name Puntumia Gua from ‘Funtum,’ one of the vernacular 
names of /. elastica) for the first group, reserving Kickxia for the 
aise as this genus was based on the Javanese Kickeia arborea. As I 
* Quoad fructus, 
