PuLates 2696-2697. 
FUNTUMIA AFRICANA, Stapf. 
ApocyNAcEx. Tribe EcHITIDEz. 
F. africana, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc., Dec. 7, age Arbor 15-80 
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attenuata vel interdum rotundata, apice breviter et abrupte acuminata, 
5-9 poll. longa, 14-35 poll. lata, integerrima, margine undulata et 
exsiccando revoluta, supra glaberrima, sicca arma fusca, sda in 
axillis inter costam et nervos secundariis plerumque pubescens et 
efoveolata, nervis secundariis utrinque 9-10 (raro 11), subpatolis, sub 
margine arcuato-connexis, tertiariis venisque inconspicuis ; petiolus 
2-4 lin. longus. Cyme breviter pedunculate, multiflore, vongeste, 
glabree ; pple ee 3 tin, Ment ; bracteze parvee, ovate, acute vel 
subacute, pedicelli ad 2 lin. longi. ores flavescentes, alabastra 
subcylindrica, nee curvata, 7-9 lin. longa. Calyx 14 lin. longus ; 
pilosule. Discus 5-lobus vel ad basin 5- -partitus, ovario 4 brevior. 
Fructus follicult fusiformes, acute-acuminati, semiteretes, ventre 
applanati, in lateribus utrinque longitudinale angulati, ad 8 poll. 
longi, angulis 14~2 lin. distantibus. Semina 6-8 lin. longa. ; arista 
1}- “13 poll longa, — goes 24 poll. " wiatts —Kickxia africana, 
Benth. n Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 1376. Stapf in n Journ. Linn. Soe. 
XEx. " "90, and in i Bull. 1895, p. 244, cum icone* ; 
K. Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, i. pp. 217-221, 
arb. in Zeitschr. f. trop. Landwirthsch peg » 
1. pp. 99-103, cum icone * ; Lecomte in Rev Col. i. pp. 12-19 
41 47, fig. 1 and 2; Preuss in Tropenpfl. iii. ak ay be Femi Les 
Plantes a Caoutchouc, pp- 68-73, fig. 10 * ; Preuss in n Notizbl. Bot. Gart. 
* Descriptione et figuris fructuum exceptis. 
