64 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [Clita7idra. 



JtO-wer Guinea. Gaboon, Klaine, 103b ! 



Pierre tlescribed the fruit as cylindric, truncate at both ends and 1-3-seeded, 

 and the seeds as exalbuminous with thick, fleshy cotyledons. It was chiefly this 

 l)ecuharity which induced him to make it the type of a new genus. The cruslicd 

 fruits in tlie Kew and Berlin hei'baria, distributed by Pierre in capsules along with 

 flowering: branches under the name of Cylindropsis, suggest (as Hallier has already 

 remarked) a globose shape, and the seeds must have been considerably more 

 numerous. The structure of the latter, however, is as Pierre describes it ; but 

 proves that the fruit is tliat of so.ne species of Salacia, which was mixed up with the 

 flowering branches described above. It seems that Klaine had originally sent the 

 true fruits of C. parvifolia, as Pierre remarks in a note accompanying the Berlin 

 specimen that the fruit sent by Klaine under No. 103 had albuminous seeds. 



3. C. togolana, Stajyf. A climbing shrub, with very slender, 

 glabrous, spirally contorted tendrils from the branch-forks or pseudo- 

 axillary ; young branches very slender, densely and minutely puberulous, 

 soon glabrescent and at length quite glabrous, fuscous, scantily dotted 

 with minute lenticels. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate or obtuse, acute at the base, 2J-4 in. long, 1-lf in. 

 broad, thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous ; midrib flat above, slightly 

 convex below ; secondary nerves 8-9 on each side, rather spreading, 

 straight, very slender, obscure above, slightly raised below ; veins lax, 

 quite obscure ; petiole - lin. long. Flowers sessile in pubescent few- 

 flowered sessile axillary clusters from the axils of normal or reduced 

 leaves ; bracts minute. Calyx j-4 lin. long ; sepals unequal, ovate, 

 obtuse, puberulous or glabrous, the outer shorter, firmer, the inner 

 almost membranous, ciliolate. Corolla yellow, glabrous without ; tube 

 cylindric from the base to beyond J of its length then gradually widened, 

 and contracted again at the callous mouth, 1| lin. long, very scantily 

 hairy at the insertion of the stamens ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, rather 

 fleshy, reflexed or spreading, 1 lin. long. Stamens inserted just above 

 the middle on very short slender filaments, not reaching to the mouth of 

 the tube, f lin. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, passing into the very short 

 style ; stigma subsubulate from a thickened annular base bifid ; the 

 whole pistil not or very slightly exceeding the calyx. Fruit globose, over 

 1 \ in. in diam. ; rind thick. Seeds (immature) with very thin foliaceous 

 cotyledons. — Cylindroj)sis togolana, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. 

 Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 133. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : common in bush near Lome, Warneche, 46 ! 



4. C. alba, Stapf. A powerful climbing shrub ; tendrils unknown ; 

 stem up to 6 in. in diam. ; young branches very slender, flexuous, very 

 sparingly puberulous or glabrous, brown, at length somewhat rough 

 with lenticels. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or obscurely 

 acuminate, acute at the base, 2-4 in. long, lJ-2 in. broad, thinly 

 coriaceous, quite glabrous ; midrib flat or subconvex on both sides ; 

 secondary nerves 8-9 on each side, obliquely spreading, very fine, obscure 

 above, slightly raised below; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2 lin. long. 

 Flowers in axillary and terminal few-flowered, sessile clusters ; bracts 

 minute, pubescent. Calyx | lin. long, minutely pubescent ; sepals ovate 



