Caiyodinus.'] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 77 



107; Warb. Kautbchukpfl. 120; Ohevalier, G6ogr. Bot. Senegal et 

 Soudan, 223. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Isles : San Jago, Bocande (ex Hallier f.) Sene- 

 gambia, Heudelot ! Sierra Leone : Freetown, Don ! Bunce Island, Kirk ! all over 

 the inland country to the headwaters of the Niger, common on the laterite plateau, 

 Scott-Elliot, 4249 ! 4275a ! 4294 ! 5091 ! 5127 ! 5885 ! 



The fruit (sweet " Pishamin ") is eaten by the natives, and the milky juice of 

 the plant used as birdlime according to Scott-Elliot, whilst Jumelle and Planchon 

 say that it yields an inferior class of rubber. 



6. C. hirsuta^ Hua ex Chevalier in Bull. Mies. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 vi. (1900) 308. A tall, robust, climbing shrub, with scanty tendrils; 

 young branches rather stout, densely hirsute with violet spreading 

 hairs ; bark soon blackish-brown, dotted with numerous white lenticels. 

 Leaves oblong, abruptly, shortly and acutely acuminate or acute, sub- 

 truncate or obscurely cordate at the base, 3-4 J in. long, 1^-2 in. broad 

 (those of barren shoots up to 7 in. by 3J in), papery to subcoriaceous, 

 glabrescent above, hirsute along the nerves below ; secondary nerves 

 6-8 on each side, oblique, curved, like the midrib finely channelled 

 above, raised below; transverse veins fine, distant; reticulation delicate, 

 often obscure ; petiole about 5 lin. long. Flowers sessile in compact, 

 sessile, axillary clusters ; bracts fulvo-tomentose, similar to the sepals, 

 but broader. Calyx densely pubescent, 1 lin. long ; sepals ovate-oblong, 

 obtii.se. Corolla small; tube fulvo-pubescent without above the glabrous 

 base, 2 lin. long ; lobes linear, subacute, 2 lin. long, J lin. wide. Stamens 

 inserted above the middle ; anthers ovate, acute, scarcely | lin. long, 

 almost reaching to the mouth. Ovary truncate-subglobose, fulvo-tomen- 

 tellous in the upper part ; style glabrous, including the clavate, bifid 

 stigma over J lin. long. Fruit globose, smooth, resembling an orange, 

 2-3J in. in diam. ; seeds 9 lin. long and almost as broad, in a yellow 

 edible pulp. — Hua, I.e. 312-317 ; Chevalier, Geogr. Bot. Senegal et 

 Soudan, 223. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ; Fogny, by the River Casamanze, in Bignonia 

 forests. Chevalier ; Sinedone, 40 miles from the coast, Rarems (ex Chevalier). 

 French Guinea : Futa Jallon ; Bambaya, Paroisse (1898) 8. Dubreka, Bouery ; 

 Tanene, near Konakry, Lecerf ! Poisson J 



The description (except that of the fruit) was drawn up from a specimen 

 collected by Lecerf near Konakry, which agrees completely with the following barren 

 specimens in the Kew Herbarium : Gold Coast ; Aquapim, Horton ! Lagos, " Ibo 

 tree," Moloney ! Higgins^ 19 ! It comes also very near to C.fulva, Pierre, which 

 is known only from leaf specimens and fruits. This Ibo tree is supposed to yield 

 part of the rubber of the Gold Coast Colony and Lagos. 



7. C. Barteriy Stapf in Kew Bulletin^ 1894, 19. A climber, 

 8-12 ft. high, with slender terminal or pseudo-axillary tendrils ; 

 youngest branches and inflorescences hirsute with short reddish-brown 

 hairs ; otherwise glabrous or with a few scattered hairs ; bark greyish- 

 brown, dotted with lenticels. Leaves broad elliptic, 2-4 in. long, 1-2 J 

 (rarely 3) in. broad, cordate at the base, usually obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex, rarely shortly acuminate, coriaceous, finely rusty pubescent in 

 a very young state, soon glabrescent ; midrib narrowly channelled ; 



