68 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [CHtandva. 



flowered, glabrous, slightly exceeding the petioles ; bracts minute ; 

 pedicels up to 1^^ lin. long. Calyx -J lin. long, glabrous ; sepals obtuse, 

 ciliolate. Corolla white, glabrous without ; tube slender, subcylindric, 

 widest at 1 J lin. from the base, 5-G lin. long ; lobes obovate, obtuse, half 

 as long as the tube. Stamens inserted 1 J lin. above the base of the 

 corolla ; filaments slightly bent ; anthers erect, as long as the filaments, 

 lanceolate, acute. Ovary truncate, glabrous ; style slender, cylindric, 

 ^-^ lin. long; stigma ovoid to ovoid-oblong, shorter than the style, not 

 reaching to the anthers. Ovules 4-seriate. — K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxiii. 219; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 40; Hallier f. 

 Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 

 3. Beih. 129. 



Upper Guinea. Camcroons : ]iipindc, in forest, Zenker, 1628 ! Yaunde, in 

 forest, Zenker, 461 ! 682 ! 



Ttovrer Guinea. Gaboon: without precise locality, Klaine, 373^is ! 373tert 

 Loango : Chinchocho, in forests, Soyaux, 183 ! Congo : witliont precise locality, 

 Demeuse, 480 ! 



According to a note by Zenker, the fruit is pear-shaped, not quite 1 in. long 

 and edible ; Delpy represents it, in a drawing from Klaine's specimen, 373^^^ as 

 globose, sometimes apiculate, and about 1^ in. in diam. 



11. C. Schweinfurthii, Stapf in Kevj Bulletin, 1894, 20. A 

 climbing shrub ; tendrils unknown ; young branches pale greyish- 

 brown, lower down dotted with reddish spots, at length equally reddish- 

 brown. Leaves elliptic, abruptly acuminate (acumen short, obtuse), 

 cuneate at the base, 2^-2| in. long, 1 J-lJ in. broad, thinly coriaceous, 

 slightly glossy above, opaque and glaucous beneath ; margins almost 

 flat; midrib flat above, slightly convex below; secondary nerves 10-11 

 to an inch, fine, slightly raised on both sides, with still finer parallel 

 tertiary ones between them ; petiole 2-3 lin, long. Cymes few-flowered, 

 glabrous, axillary, (exclusive of the corollas) as long as or shorter than 

 the petioles ; bracts minute ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long. Calyx J lin. 

 long, glabrous ; sepals ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla glabrous 

 without; tube slender, cylindric, slightly widened above the base, 4 lin. 

 long, pale yellow, almost glabrous within ; lobes white, linear, subacute, 

 8 lin. long. Stamens inserted near the base ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers lanceolate, acute. Ovary globose-ovoid, passing into the short 

 style ; stigma ovoid ; ovules 3-4-seriate. — Jumelle, PI. a caoutch. et a 

 gutta, G2; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 

 Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 126. 



irile ]Land. British East Africa : Bongo ; between tlie River Pongo and 

 River Getti, Schweinfurlh, ser. iii, 68 ! 



Hallier (I.e.) also refers to this species a specimen collected by Dewevre on tbc 

 Lower Congo (625), which I enumerated as Clitandra sp. in De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo, fasc. i. 34. I there pointed out that the leaves' much resemble 

 those of C. Schweinfurthii, but could not identify it in the absence of flowers. 

 Schweinfurth describes the fruit as globose and about 2 in. in diam. Dewevre's 

 fruit is also globose, 1^ in. in diam., reddish-brown and dotted with numerous pale 

 leuticels. 



