54 Lxxxiv. ArocYNACE.i^. (sTArr). [Landol])hia. 



branches passing into tendrils ; all parts of the inflorescence (including 

 the calyces) finely fulvo-tomentose to almost shaggy; bracts ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, subacute or obtuse ; pedicels very short. Calyx 1-1 J lin. 

 long ; sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, subobtuse. Corolla strongly 

 scented ; tube whitish, slightly tinged with yellow, subcylindric, slightly 

 inflated, constricted at both ends, 3-3} lin. long, finely pubescent or 

 tomentose without; lobes pure white, oblong-obtuse, 2-8 lin. long, 

 pubescent without, mouth finely tomentose. Stamens inserted at the 

 middle ; anthers ovate, linear, acute. Ovary truncate, top very finely 

 tomentose. Fruit pear-shaped or globose and often suddenly contracted 

 into a stout stipe, l-o in. in diam., yellow ; pericarp coriaceous ; seeds 

 4-7 lin. long, embedded in a whitish, sour, watery pulp. — Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 444; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 407, and in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 446-448, 454, 459 partly, and in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 130 partly; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 140, 312; 

 Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 39 partly; Chimani in Bot. 

 Centralbl. Ixi. (1895)450 ; Vogtherrin Kohler, Mediz. Pfl. iii. sub Lan- 

 dolphia comorensis; Moller in Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 187 ; Jumelle, PI. a 

 caoutch. et a gutta, 45, 48, 50, fig. 7 on p. 49 ; Morris in Journ. Soc. 

 Arts,xlvi. 780 ; Sadebeck, Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 272-270, fig. lOO ; 

 Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 313, figs. D-F on p. 311, and Kaut- 

 schukpfl. 119, 120, 124, fig. D-F on p. 117 ; Sebire in Rev. Cult. Colon, 

 iv. (1899) 194 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, v. (1899), 179-183 ; 

 Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstofi'e, ed. 2, i. 303; Hallier f. Kautschuk- 

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

 41-42, 75 ; Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab. iii. ; SchJechter, Westafrik. 

 Kautschuk-Exp. 229 (not fig. on p. 9) ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Pari«,vi. (1900), 311, and in Journ. de Bot. xv. (1901),G5, 08, figs. 1 and 2; 

 Chevalier in Ball. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi. (1900) 307, and Geog. 

 Botan. Senegal et Soudan, 218, and fig. on p. 219; De Wild. Apocyn. 

 a latex rec. par Gentil. 10-14. L. Ileudelotii, var. tonientosa, Hua in 

 Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, v. (1899) 182. L. Michelini, Benth. in 

 Hook. I.e. ; Walp. Ann. iii. 29 ; Badlkof. in Abhandl. Naturwiss. 

 Ver. Bremen, viii. (1883) 390 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 408, 

 and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 452 ; Dewevre, I.e. 42 ; Warb. in.Tropenpfl. 

 iii. (1899) 313, and Kautschukpfl. 119, 120; Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat. Paris, 1900, 306. L. Traunii, Sadeb. ex K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xv. 406, 408 ; Dewevre, I.e. 43 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 453; Sadebeck in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 

 Anstalt. xiv. (1897), 3. Beih. 121, and Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 275, 

 276 ; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 119, 120 ; Chevalier, I.e. 300. L. tomentosa, 

 Dewevre I.e. 44 (excl. Sacleux's plant from Zanzibar); Moller in 

 Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 187; Jumelle, PI. a caoutch. et a gutta, 44, 52; 

 Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 313 and Kautschukpfl. 119; Mikosch, 

 I.e. 362 ; Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab. iii. ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kaut- 

 schuk-Exped, 229 ; Chevalier in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1900, 306. 

 Vahea Ileudelotii, F. Muell. in Wittstein, Org. Constit. Plants (1878) 

 258, 268, and in Select. Extratrop. Plants, ed. 3 (1880) 344. F. tome7i- 

 tosa, Lepr. ex L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 139, 306 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. B. 453, V. Traunii, Sadeb. in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 



