Landolphia.] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (stapf). 37 



shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, subacute or rather obtuse at the 

 base, 3—1: in. long, IJ-l J in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glossy and dark 

 above, much paler beneath ; midrib fiat or slightly convex above, dis- 

 tinctly raised below; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, oblique, very 

 fine above, somewhat stouter and more distinctly raised beneath ; mar- 

 ginal arches inconspicuous ; veins neatly anastomosing and raised on 

 both sides ; petiole 3-5 lin. long. Flowers in terminal shortly peduncled 

 many-flowered rather dense fulvo-pubescent cor3'mbs or short semi- 

 globose panicles ; peduncle rather slender, ^-1 in. long ; bracts ovate, 

 obtuse, like the pedicels fulvo-pubescent, the latter up to 1\ lin. long. 

 Calyx fulvo-pubescent, J-1 lin. long ; sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla sweet- 

 scented ; tube yellowish, slender, slightly widened below the middle, 

 pubescent without, hairy within, (i-G^ lin. long; lobes linear-oblong, 

 ■obtuse, pure white with a yellow base, 8-9J lin. long, 2J lin. broad, ^ 

 glabrous. Anthers linear-oblong. Ovary subtruncate, glabrous except 

 for a few very minute adpressed hairs in the upper part. Style and 

 stigma 1| lin. long, the latter cylindric, shortly bifid. Fruit orange- 

 coloured with grey patches, ovoid to globose, 2J to almost 4 in. long, 

 top slightly depressed, pericarp elastic; seeds 15-20, embedded in a 

 yellow watery pulp.— Radlkofer in Abh. Naturwiss. Ver. Bremen, 

 viii. 39G ; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 407 ; Dew^vre, Caoutch. 

 Afric. Monogr. Landolph. 34 ; Sadebeck in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 

 Anstalt. xiv. (1896), 3. Beih. 121 ; Moller in Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 187; 

 Jumelle, PI. a Caoutch. et a Gutta, 50 ; Warb. in Tropeijpfl. iii. (1899) 

 313, Kautschukpfl. 119-121 ; Morris in Journ. Soc. Arts, xlvi. 775; 

 Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris v. (1899) 183-185, vi. (1900) 311, 

 not iii. (1897) 325; Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstofie, ed. 2, i. 302; 

 Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab. iii. ; Hua & Chevalier in Journ. de Bot. 

 XV. (1901), 79, fig. 4. B. L.Jioriday var. seiiegalensis, Hallier f. Kaut- 

 schuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899) 94. 

 Landolphia sp., Bentham in Hook. Niger Fl. 445. L. comoretisis, and 

 \2iV.Jlorida, Dewevre, I.e. IC, 18 (partly). Vahea senegalensis, A. DC. 

 Prod. viii. 328 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fi. 445 ; Collins, Caoutch. Rep. 

 20; F.v. Mueller in Wittstein, Org. Constit. Plants, 258, 268; L. Planch. 

 Prod. Apocyn. 307. 



Upper Guinea. Senegaiubia : forests of Albre^a, Leprieur ; lie aux Chiens 

 and QsiSAWWime, Leprieur ; Kombo {Qfomho"?), Heudelot, 29! Gambia, Skues ! ooiia- 

 inon near Kan and Kousann by the Oambia, Perrotet, 792! Senegal, Jtoger ! 

 ^e^Zamy, 309, 459, 474, 522. Portuguese Guinea : Hissao, TVaww. French Guinea: 

 Marigot de Coliiuini, between Niagasola and Kita, Paroisse, 35 ; banks of the 

 Niger, near Kouroussa (Kurusa), Paroisse, 19 ; Bakhoy Valleyj Lecard, 74 ! Futa 

 Jallon ; near Kouroufi, Paroisse, 13 partly ; D.mdoum, Noury. 



\zr. glahrifl&ra, Hua, I.e. v. 185. Intiorescence perfectly glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia : by the Gambia Kivcr, Whitfield ! French Guinea : 

 hanks of the Kiver Nigei', near Kouroussa (Kurusa), Pa?-ow'^tf, 13 partly; 8ikoto, 

 between Kita and Ningasola, Paroisse, 32, 83 ; hanks of the Bakhoy Kivcr, near 

 Tokoto, Paroisse, 38 ; near Farana on the Niger, Scott-EUiot, 5345 ! 



Hallier also refers to L. senegalensis, a plant from Accra, on the (Jold Coast, sent 

 toTraun in 1892, with the habit of that species, hut with a densely, though minutely, 

 iiairy ovary. The species is certainly closely allied to L.fiorida ; but it is suialler 



