70 LXXXiT. APOCYXACEiE (stapf). [CUtandra. 



Corolla almost glabrous without, yellow, up to 6 lin. long in bud ; buds 

 very slender, slightly curved ; tube subcampanulate, scarcely 1 J lin. 

 long, pubescent within; lobes linear, very narrow, 4-5 lin. long. Filaments 

 short ; anthers lanceolate-oblong, acute. Ovary sulcata, scantily 

 hispidulous, forming together with the thick style a conical body ; 

 stigma ovoid. Ovules 4-seriate, 3-5 in each series. Fruit globose- 

 ellipsoid, less than 1 in. long, on slender pedicels. — Qarpodinus cymu- 

 losa, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 87 (not of Benth.). Carpodiiius 

 incerta, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 132 (incom- 

 pletely described). C. laxijlora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 220. 

 Aphanostylis laxijlora, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn> Paris, 1898, 90. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Futa Jallon; near Bayabaya, Scott-Elliot^ 

 4547 ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Togo : Katschenki, Kling, 7 ! Misahohe, Baumann, 

 514! 



14. C. leptantha, Hallierf. Kautschuklianen in Jahrh. Uamhurg. 

 Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 123, t. iv. fig. 6. A climbing 

 shrub, 9-10 ft. high, with tendrils from the branch-forks or (appa- 

 rently ?) from the axils of fallen leaves ; branches rather stout, brown, 

 more or less sulcate, rough from brownish lenticels. Leaves oblong, 

 abruptly acuminate (acumen very narrow, 4-5 lin. long), acute or sub- 

 acute at the base, 4-6 in. long, lJ-2^ in. broad, coriaceous; midrib 

 slightly convex above, prominent below ; secondary nerves distant, 7-8 

 on each side, rather inconspicuous above, slightly raised below ; petiole 

 lJ-3 lin. long. Cymes few- to 12-flowered, very minutely puberulous, 

 slightly exceeding the petioles, sometimes on the old wood from the 

 axils of fallen leaves ; bracts minute ; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 

 \ lin. long, scantily pubescent towards the base ; sepals ovate, subacute, 

 minutely ciliolate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, 3J-4J lin. long in 

 bud ; tube uiceolate-campanulate, scarcely 1 lin. long ; lobes linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, 2^-3 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of 

 the tube ; filaments very short ; anthers erect, ovate- lanceolate. Ovary 

 very shortly cylindric, minutely hairy, passing into the glabrous, sulcate, 

 very short style ; stigma conical and 2-lobed. Fruit cylindric- oblong, 

 2 in. long, 10 lin. in diam., orange-coloured mottled with brown, seeds 

 6-7 lin. long. — Carpodinus leptantha, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 132, not of Stapf. Aphanostylis leptantha, Pierre in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 89, 90. 



Upper Guinea. Camoroons : Bipinde, in the forest of Mimfia, Zenker^ 

 1903a! 



ILower Guinea. Qaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 233 ! 250 ! and 

 without precise locality, Klaine, 1158 ! 1159 I 



15. C. flayidiflora, Ualli&r f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrh. Ham- 

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

 climbing shrub ; tendrils not seen ; young branches dark brown, some- 

 what rough with numerous small lenticels. Leaves obloiig or elliptic- 

 oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, acute or subacute at the base, 

 3J-5J in. long, 1 J-2J in. broad, thinly coriaceous ; midrib flat or sub- 

 convex above, slightly raised beneath ; secondary nerves distant, about 



