Clitandra.'] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (stapf). 69 



12. C. Mannii, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1804, 20. A tall, climbing 

 shrub with flagelliform tendrils from the branch-forks ; young branches 

 reddish- brown, soon turning grey, with very minute lenticels. Leaves 

 ovate, oblong or elliptic, rather abruptly acuminate (acumen up to 7 lin. 

 long, narrowly linear, obtuse), acute or subobtuse at the base, 2;J-4 in. 

 long, l|-lj in. broad, thinly coriaceous; margins often slightly wavy ; 

 midrib flat or subconvex above, slightly prominent below ; secondary 

 nerves very fine, often faint, scarcely raised on either side, secondary 

 and tertiary ones almost alike, the former about 4-G to an inch ; petiole 

 2-;> lin. long. Panicles short, axillary and terminal, few- to 20- 

 flowered, lax, glabrous, up to 1 in. long ; peduncles and pedicels very 

 slender, the former up to 4 lin. long (sometimes hardly any), the latter 

 up to 2 lin. long; bracts minute. Calyx J-| lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, ciliolate. Corolla yellowish-white, quite 

 glabrous, 2|-3 lin. long in bud; buds very slender, slightly curved; 

 tube subcampanulate, scarcely | lin. long ; lobes linear, obtuse, '2,-'2}2 

 lin. long. Filaments very short, inserted at the middle of the tube ; 

 anthers lanceolate, acute, reaching to the mouth of the corolla. Ovary 

 ovoid, passing into the short style ; stigma clavate, more or less minutely 

 2-lobed. Ovules 4-seriate, few in each series. — Jumelle, PL a caoutchouc 

 et a gutta, Q'2 ; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 40 ; Hallier f. 

 Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1890), 

 3. Beih. 125. A'phanostylis Mannii, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 

 1898, 89. A. exserens, Pierre, I.e. 90. Carpodinus ea.'.sere?is, K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 219. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bagru River, 3Iann, 848 ! Cameroons : com- 

 mon near Yaunde, 2400 ft., Zenker Sf Staudf, 123 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1237 ! 1621 ! 

 Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Como Hirer, 75-80 miles inland, Bates, 4G4 ! 



Hallier f. also refers here a fruiting specimen collected by Pogire (694!) in the 

 Congo Tree State. The fruits are pear-shaped, over 1 in. long, 1 in. thick, drab with 

 large circnlar rougli cinnamon coloured patches. The leaves are extremely like those 

 of C. Mannii, but tlie determination appears to me nevertheless still doubtful. The 

 Sierra Leone specimens differ from the others in having smaller panicles with smaller 

 flowers and slightly thinner leaves. 



18. C. laxiflora, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrh. Ilamhurg. 

 Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 124. A glabrous climbing 

 shrub with terminal, very slender, hook-branched tendrils ; young 

 branches slender ; bark light brown with numerous whitish lenticels. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded 

 at the base, 21-3|- in. long, Ij-lf in. broad, papery, light brownish- 

 green when dry, opaque ; midrib slightly convex on both sides ; 

 secondary nerves very fine, slightly raised on both sides, much spread- 

 ing, unequal, 4-G 'to an inch ; petiole 2-2^- lin. long. Panicles short, 

 axillary and terminal, usually few-flowered, lax, pubescent or almost 

 glabrous, up to IJ in. long; peduncles and pedicels very slender, the 

 former up to 7 lin. long, the latter up to 2 lin. long; bracts minute. 

 Calyx j lin. long, glabrous ; sepals ovate, acute or subobtuse, ciliolate, 



