Clitandra.'] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 71 



7-9 on each side, slightly raised on both sides ; petiole 3-3^ lin. long. 

 Cymes rather lax, G-Q-flowered ; bracts small, ovate, ciliolate ; pedicels 

 slender, up to 2^ lin. long. Calyx almost 1 lin. long ; sepals ovate, 

 acute, minutely ciliolate. Corolla whitish or yellowish, waxy, G lin. long 

 in bud, glabrous on both sides ; tube urceolate, slightly exceeding 1 lin. ; 

 lobes linear, slightly broader at the base, obtuse, 5 lin. lone:. Filaments 

 short, inserted just below the middle of the tube ; anthers oblong, obtuse. 

 Ovary turbinate, sulcate, glabrous, gradually narrowed into the sub- 

 cylindric sulcate style ; stigma minute, globose-ovoid, obscurely 2-lobed. 

 Ovules multiseriate, numerous. — Carpodinus flavidiflora^ K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 220. Aphanostylis Jiavidiflora, Pierre in Bull. Soc. 

 Linn. Paris, 1898, 90. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : forest near Yaunde, 2400 ft., Zenker, 804 ! 

 Bipinde, in forest, 500 ft., Zenker^ 1750 ! 



Dinklag-e, 1621 ! from Liberia (according to tlie collector a rubber climber highly 

 appreciated by the natives) is mentioned by Hallier (I.e.) as coming very near to 

 C.fiavidifiora. The specimen in the Berlin Herbarium is so fragmentaiy that not 

 even the genus can be ascertained with certainty. 



1 6. C. robustior, K. Schum. in Engl, d: Prantl, Pjianzeiifam. iv. 

 2, 130. A tall, twining (?), glabrous shrub; young branches reddish- 

 brown, when dry grooved and wrinkled, with numerous brown lenticels. 

 Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate 

 (acumen linear, up to 5 lin. long, 1 J lin. broad), subacute at the base, 

 3 to over G in. long, 1J-2J in. broad, thinly coriaceous; midrib flat or 

 slightly sunk above, distinctly prominent below ; secondary nerves 

 distant, about 7 on each side, connected by bold arches, which are rather 

 distant from the margins, slightly channelled above, raised below ; veins 

 inconspicuous ; petiole about 3 lin. long, channelled. Flowers sessile 

 in dense, sessile, axillary and terminal, almost glabrous, many-flowered 

 clusters ; bracts minute. Calyx J lin. long ; sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate. 

 Corolla sweet-scented, glabrous without, about 5-6 lin. long in bud ; 

 buds slender ; tube pink, spindle-shaped, widest just below the middle, 

 2-3J lin. long, scantily hairy within ; lobes white, linear, obtuse, as 

 long as the tube. Filaments slender, \ lin. long, inserted at J from the 

 base of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, f lin. 

 long. Ovary subglobose, truncate, minutely hairy at the top ; style very 

 short ; stigma subcylindric, deeply bifid, with a ring of minute hairs at 

 the base, scarcely reaching the anthers. Ovules 2-seriate, 3-4 in each 

 series. Fruit ovoid, orange-coloured, much smaller than that of Lan- 

 dolphia Jiorida (ex Hallier). — C. 7}iyriantha, K. Schum. ex Pierre in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 40; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. 

 Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 121. Carpodinns 

 TTiyriantha, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 221. Landolphia sp., 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 409 (specim. coll. by Preuss). L. Frevssii, 

 K. Schum. ex Dew^vre,Caoutch, Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 56. L. Mannii^ 

 Pew6vre, I.e. partly (not of Dyer). 



