78 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Cai'podinus. 



nerves channelled above, prominent betieath, 4-5 on each side, distant, 

 connected by bold arches distant from the margin ; petioles 2-2J lin. 

 long. Flowers sessile in axillary sessile contracted few- to 10-flowered 

 rusty pubescent clusters ; bracts at the base of the flowers mostly 

 solitary or suppressed, small, ovate. Calyx 1-1 J lin. loDg; sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, ciliolate and pubescent on the back, distinctly connate at the 

 base. Corolla entirely violet, or white at the throat (or entirely white ?) ; 

 tube slender, widened below the mouth, 4- 8 J lin. long, rusty pubescent 

 without, almost glabrous within ; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube, 

 or nearly so. Ovary hirsute except at the very base ; style slender, 

 with a few scattered minute hairs. Young fruit pear-shaped, soon 

 glabrescent. — Jumelle, PI. a caoutchouc et a gutta, C2 ; Pierre in Bull. 

 Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 37 ; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Ham- 

 burg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 107. C. paucifloi-a, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 131 ; Hallier f. I.e. 108. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : Jego River, Kling, 51 ! Misahohe, Baumann, 304 ! 

 Lagos, Barter, 20138 ! Moloney, xi. ! Roland ! Millen, 23 ! 47 ! 155 ! 169 ! 

 Punch 43 ! New Calabar ; Degema, Holland, 148 ! Old Calabar River, Mann, 

 2261 ! Cameroous : Batanga, Binklage, 1366 ! Bates, 202 ! 



Moloney states that the plant yields a kind of rubber. 



The flowers are violet according to Millen and Dinklage, or pale violet with a 

 white throat according to C. Baumann. Bates describes them, however, as white. 

 Tlie leaves of Bates' plant are also mostly distinctly and acutely acuminate and more 

 densely spotted with black dots than in the other specimens of C. Barteri. 



8. C. parviflora, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 19. A scandent 

 shrub, up to 30 ft. high, with flagelliform scantily hook-branched 

 pseudo-axillary tendrils ; young branches more or less hirsute, finally 

 often glabrescent, pale-brown ; lenticels few. Leaves oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, narrowly and acutely acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, 

 3J-5 in. long, lJ-2 in. broad, coriaceous, 'sparingly hairy on the midrib 

 below or quite glabrous, pale green above when dry ; secondary nerves 

 5-7 on each side, like the midrib finely channelled above and very 

 prominent below, connected by bold arches rather distant from the 

 margin. Flowers sessile, axillary, solitary or in few-flowered clusters ; 

 bracts very small, hirsute. Calyx 1\ lin. long ; sepals almost free, sub- 

 acuminate, with short spreading hairs. Corolla-tube slender, slightly 

 widened below the mouth, glabrous without, almost glabrous within, 

 3J lin. long ; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube or slightly longer. 

 Ovary elongate, finely villous ; style pubescent. Fruit ovoid, produced 

 into a short beak, If in. long, 10 lin. broad. Seeds about 6, pale brown, 

 6 lin. long. — Jumelle, PI. a caoutch. et a gutta, 62 ; Pierre in Bull. Soc. 

 Linn. Paris, 1898, 37 ; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg, 

 Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 108. C. flava, Pierre, I.e. 

 (name only) ; Hallier f. I.e. 109. Djeratonia sp., Pierre, I.e. 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyauvc, 184 ! 219 ! 

 Libreville, Klaine, 291 ! and without precise locality, Klaine, 1155 ! 



9. C. tenuifolia, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 37 (name 

 only). A climbing shrub, with very slender flagelliform axillary or 



