€arpodi7ms.] Lxxxiv. APOCYXACEiE (staff). 83 



lin. long. Flowers in sessile axillary clusters; bracts minute, ovate, 

 minutely rufo-puberulous. Calyx very scantily and minutely puberulous, 

 ^ lin. long ; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse. Corolla small, scantily and very 

 iinely puberulous ; tube cylindric in the lower §, then suddenly widened, 

 2| lin. long ; lobes linear, obtuse, 2^ lin. long. Anthers lanceolate- 

 oblong, over J lin. long, tips scantily hairy. Ovary densely villous; 

 style very fine, almost 1~ lin. long. — Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in 

 Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3, Beih. 110 (name 

 only). 



ILower Guinea. Gaboo?!, Klaine, 336b ! 



18. C. turbinata, Stapfin Kew Bulletin, 1898, 304. A climbing 

 shrub, with long terminal, branched tendrils ; branches quite glabrous, 

 pale with minute lenticels. Leaves oblong, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, 2J-3J in. long, 12-16 lin. broad, 

 coriaceous, quite glabrous, pale when dry, especially below ; secondary 

 nerves 7-9 on each side, fine, raised below like the reticulating veins ; 

 petiole slender, 2J-3J lin. long. Flowers axillary or sometimes appa- 

 rently extra-axillary, rarely terminal, solitary, subsessile ; bracts minute, 

 ovate, very finely puberulous. Calyx |-J lin. long ; sepals 4, ovate, 

 obtuse, very minutely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, glaucous. Corolla 

 glabrous, white; tube slender, widened below the mouth, 10-12 lin. 

 long; lobes very narrow, linear, acute, 9-12 lin. long, ^ lin. wide. 

 Ovary spindle-shaped, glabrous at the base, otherwise pubescent like the 

 style. Fruit conic from a broad truncate base, almost ?> in. long, and 

 over 2 in. wide, yellow; seeds numerous, about 4-5 J lin. long. — Stapf 

 in De Wild. & Durand, Illustr. Fl.Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 1, 

 i. fasc. iii. 57, t. xxix., and in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo 

 in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 2, i. fasc. i. 35; Hallier f. Kautschuk- 

 lianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1 899), 3. Beih. 109, 

 t. iii. fig. 2-4 partly; De Wild. Apocyn. a latex rec. par (lentil, 31. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Equatenr (EquatorvlUe), J)?;ftr>r, 311 ! 

 540; Ikenge (Ruki), QentU. 



Hallier also refers to this species a specimen collected by Zenker (20/3 !) near 

 Bipinde, in the Cameroons. This consists of a branch with leaves and pedicels from 

 which the fruits have fallen. The leaves are much larger and have a somewhat 

 different nervation than in C. turbiyiata, are more acute at the base, and certainly 

 belong to some other species. 



19. C. ligustrifolia, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1898, o04. A 

 glabrous or almost glabrous climbing shrub, with long, very slender, 

 fiagelliform, branched, terminal tendrils ; branches dark with numerous 

 minute lenticels.. Leaves usually ovate or oblong-lanceolate, gradually 

 tapering into a rather long obtuse acumen, rounded at the bcise, 2-?>h in. 

 long, 9-14 lin. broad, coriaceous, quite glabrous; midrib ^videly 

 channelled above ; secondary nerves 7-8 on each side, fine, sunk above, 

 slightly prominent below, connected near the margin by somewhat flab 



