42 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [LandolpMa, 



branch-forks ; young branches densely fulvo-hirsute, scarcely glabrescent 

 when old, and then dotted with conspicuous whitish lenticels. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or oblong, more or less acuminate, rounded at the baseoi- 

 sometimes obscurely and minutely cordate, 2A-4J in. long, coriaceous,, 

 subglaucous above when dry, softly fulvo-hirsute on both sides, soon 

 glabrescent above except on the midrib, permanently hirsute on the- 

 nerves below ; midrib finely channelled above, prominent below ; secon- 

 dary nerves 5-7 on each side, slender, curved, passing into and connecteci 

 by rather distinct arches which are somewhat remote from the margins., 

 slightly sunk above, raised beneath ; reticulation obscure, or sometimes 

 slightly raised and more conspicuous above; petiole 2-2J lin. long, hirsute. 

 Corymbs small, 6-10-flowered, terminal, subsessile, dense, borne on short 

 leafy branches or springing from the branch-forks and then pseudo- 

 axillary ; all the parts of the inflorescence fulvo-hirsute ; bracts 

 numerous, close to the flowers, subpersistent, ovate-oblong, acuminate^ 

 tips recurved; pedicels stout, extremely short. Calyx 3 lin. long; 

 sepals ovate to oblong, subobtuse to acuminate, hirsute at least along 

 the middle, ciliate, finely pubescent within, margins subscarious, midrib 

 slightly raised. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric slightly swollen at the- 

 middle, up to 0-8 lin. long, very finely tomentose or pubescent without ; 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, up to 9-10 lin. long, slightly pubescent 

 without, otherwise glabrous. Stamens inserted at or just above the^ 

 middle ; anthers lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long. Ovary ovoid, gradually 

 passing into the filiform style, densely villous ; style pubescent at the- 

 base, about 4 J lin. long, including the subcylindric stigma ; stigma- 

 exuding a waxy substance near the thickened base. Fruit oblong,, 

 obtuse, truncate at the base, IJ-IJ in. long, | in. thick, glabrous - 

 pericarp thin with a concentric sclerenchymatous layer; s-eeds 8-12, 

 ovoid.— Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 812, and Kautschukpfl. 118; 

 Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. 

 xvii. (1899), 8. Beih. 88. Carpodinus calabaricus, Stapf in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1S94, 19 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii.,. 

 131 ; Jumelle, Plantes a Caoutchouc et a Gutta, 02. 



XTpper Guinea. Gold Coast : Abnri, Broion, 391 ! and without precise locality^ 

 Brass ! Old Calabar, Mann, 2242 ! 



Brown's specimen has a few more or less mutilated tendrils. The youngest of" 

 them is densely fulvo-hirsute and about 2 in. long, and the short divaricate, slightly 

 recurved branches are supported by bract-like leaflets, whilst one of them bears a 

 small cluster of bracts at its end. 



11. L. Ijecomteiy Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 25- 

 A scandent shrub (tendrils unknown) ; young branches finely rufo- 

 tomentose, glabrescent, dark greyish -brown, with scattered lenticels. 

 Leaves oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base, about 3 J in. long, \\ in., 

 broad, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above; midrib finely channelled above,, 

 raised below ; secondary nerves about 8-12 on each side, very slender,, 

 curved, passing into the fine rather inconspicuous marginal archfs^. 

 slightly sunk above, prominent below ; reticulation very obscure; petiole 

 slender, about 3 lin. long. Corymbs terminal, shortly peduncled, 1.0-1 2- 



