Liberia <♦- 



densely hairy, small (corolla tube ^ in. long, lobes of the same 

 length); fruit globose, smooth, resembling an orange, 2 — 3^ in. 

 in diameter ; Greenville, Sim, 35 ! — The yellow pulp of the 

 fruit is edible. Sim's specimen consists of barren branches 

 only, and the determination is therefore not quite certain. 



A very similar if not identical liane occurs on the Gold Coast 

 and in Lagos. It is the " Ibo Tree " of Moloney, a name which 

 seems to be applied to several rubber vines in Upper Guinea. 



C. spec. (1) : a climber very similar to C. oocarpa, Stapf, but with more 

 distinctly cordate thinner leaves and oblong-cylindrical fruits, 

 3 in. long and \\ in. in diameter; Sino Basin, Whyte, 319!; 

 Greenville, Sim, 27 ! — In the Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. iv. 

 p. 598, I identified it with C. oocarpa, but I am now rather 

 inclined to consider it as distinct. The material at my disposal 

 is, however, too meagre to give a complete technical description. 



C. spec. (2) : a glabrous climber with slender very rough (from corky 

 warts) branches ; leaves oblong, acuminate, acute or rarely obtuse 

 at the base, thinly coriaceous, 2\ — 6 in. by i^ — 2\ in. long, 

 rather pale green, with 7 — 9 straight slightly oblique side-nerves 

 on each side, which are connected by distinct arches towards 

 the margins, finer veins very obscure, petiole \ — J in. long ; 

 flowers unknown, fruits cylindric, 3 — 4J by | in., yellow with 

 reddish brown rough irregular warts ; Murphytown and Kaka- 

 town, Whyte\; Sino River, Whyte, 8! 15! Sim, 9!; — Whyte 

 states that this yields good rubber. 



Whyte and Sim collected several more species of Carpodimis 

 or Clilandra in Liberia, but only in barren branches. They 

 are very similar, and it would require very detailed and technical 

 descriptions to bring out the differences. None of them are 

 stated to be used in collecting rubber. 



Ficralima (?) spec. ; a glabrous shrub or tree with slender branches, 

 oblong and abruptly long-acuminate coriaceous leaves, 3A— 4 in. 

 long by i^ in., on petioles \ — ^ in. long, and traversed by 

 very numerous very slender side-nerves which spread almost 

 at right angles from the dark reddish midrib, and with fruits 

 (according to a sketch by Sim) consisting of 2 oblong-ovoid 

 baccate follicles which diverge, but are contiguous in the lower 

 third, yellow towards the base and brown at the tips ; Sino 

 District, Sim, 2 ! 



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