44 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Landolphia . 



species of Aniidesma in the Kew set. De Wildeman and Durand quote L. Mannii, 

 as collected by Dewevi'e, 885, near Bumba on tlie Upper Congo. Although the 

 determination is attributed to me, I have no note or recollection of it. It may have 

 been named by Dewevre himself, who, however, mixed up L. robusta, L. Klninei 

 and Clitandra rohustior. If Dewevre's 885 is one of them, it can only be L. 

 robusta, if I may judge from his note quoted by De Wildeman and Durand. 



13. !■• scandenSy Didr. in Vidensk. Meddel. Naiurh. Foren. 

 Kjobenhavn, 1855, 190. A iscandent shrub, with sensitive inflorescences 

 acting as tendrils ; young branches minutely rusty-tomentose, at lengtli 

 slightly glabrescent, dark reddish-brown or almost black, scantily 

 dotted with whitish lenticels. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 

 obscurely or distinctly shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded (rarely 

 subacute) at the base, 2^-4 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, 

 very scantily pubescent on both sides when quite young, soon glabrescent, 

 dark green and glossy above, much paler beneath ; midrib channelled 

 above, raised below; secondary nerves much spreading, 12-15 on each 

 side, almost straight, very slender, faintly raised on both sides, alter- 

 nating with still finer tertiary nerves, all the nerves and the delicate 

 network of veins dark brown or black below ; marginal arches flat ; 

 petiole up to 3 lin. long. Panicle elongate, peduncled, bearing dense 

 clusters of many sessile flowers at the ends of its spreading or recurved 

 branches, finely rusty tomentose all over; rhachis (2-5 in. long) or 

 some of the branches acting as tendrils ; peduncle 2-4 in. long, slender ; 

 bracts oblong, acute, tomentose. Calyx rusty-tomentose, IJ-lJ ^i'^- 

 long ; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, more or less laterally compressed in 

 the upper half, and therefore apparently acuminate. Corolla 1 J-l| in. 

 long in bud; tube slender, cylindric, about 9-12 lin. long, slightly 

 widened and staminiferous about lJ-2 lin. above the base, very 

 minutely pubescent, usually along 5 fine longitudinal lines, otherwise 

 glabrous, yellow at the base, turning purple ; lobes linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, 5-8 lin. long, ciliate, snow-white. Anthers ovate, oblong, acute, 

 scarcely 1 lin. long. Ovary globose, top very minutely rufo-papillose. 

 Style and stigma scarcely IJ lin. long, the latter cylindric from a thicker 

 base, bifid. Fruit globose, of the size of a small apple, finely tomentose 

 when young. — L. scandens, vars. genuina and coriacea, Hallier f. Kaut- 

 schuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. 

 Beih. 80, 81. L. peter siana, J umeWe, PI. a Caoutch. eta Gutta, 57 partly ; 

 Warb. Kautschukpfl. 118 partly; Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab.iii., not of 

 Dyer. L. petersiana, var. crassifolia, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 402 

 408, t. xii. fig. A ; Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 29 (excl. 

 syn. and the East African specimens) ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 B. 462; Moller in Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 187,188. L. j)etersiana, var. mucrb- 

 nata, Dewevre, I.e. 30 (partly ?). Z. Welwitschii, Dyer ex De Wild. <fe 

 Durand, Peliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 3, fasc. 2, 146. 

 Ancyhhothrys mawi?/iosa, Pierre, vars. cQ'ossifolia and mucronata^ Pierre in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 92. Pacmii-ia crassifolia, Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 663. Strychnos acandeiis^ Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. 

 Guin. PI. 127; DC. Prod. ix. 13. 



Upper Ouinea. Gold Coast : Krobo plains, Johnson, 494 ! and without precise 



