Carpodiuus.] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). S6 



long, more or less spreading ; bracts minute, hispidulous. Calyx 

 minutely and scantily pubescent, scarcely 1^ lin. long; sepals ovate, 

 subobtuse, ciliolate. Corolla white, glabrous ; tube slender, slightly 

 widened near the mouth, 7-9 lin. long; lobes linear, acute, 8 lin. long. 

 Ovary glabrous, grooved, gradually passing into the fine style over 6 

 lin. long ; stigma cylindric, slender, bifid. Fruit on slightly thickened 

 pedicels, globose, about 1|- in. in diam. Seeds globose, S liu. in diam., 

 numerous. — Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl, Congo in Ann. 

 Mas. Congo, Bot. ser. 2, i. fasc. i. :^)5 ; De Wild. & Dunind in Bull. 

 Herb, Boiss. ser. 2, i. 84 ; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. 

 Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 8, fasc. ii. l-i?, excl. Dewevre's note. C. camp- 

 toloba, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182 (incom- 

 pletely described). Clitandra gracilis, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in 

 Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 117. 



Ibo-wer Grulnea. Lower Congo: Kirauenzi, Deicivre, ^IQ,"^ (exLliulinf? the 

 fruits)! very common between Leopildville and Kiniuen/n, Laurent! ncir Leopold- 

 Tille, Luja ! Kisiintu, Gillet, 71 ! Angola : Mitlanj^e, in the forests of Cabangula's 

 country. Marques, 240 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Muene Putu Kasongo, near tlie Kuango 

 Kiver, Bnettiier, 4HU ' 



21. C. macrantha, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 220. A climb- 

 ing, glabrous shrub, with long hook-branched tendrils from the branch- 

 forks ; young branches brown, slightly rough with elongate or puncti- 

 form ienticels. Leaves oblong, obtusely acuminate (acumen up to 

 8 lin. long), subacute at the base, 2J-4 in. long, Ij-lj in. broad, coria- 

 ceous ; midrib flat or slightly convex on both sides ; lateral nerves 

 very slender, 9-11 on each side, subhorizontal, inconspicuous above, 

 slightly raised below ; petiole up to 3 lin. long. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs from the leaf -axils or in small terminal o-l-flowered cyme.s ; 

 peduncle 1|-S lin. long, slender ; pedicels up to 9 lin. long ; bracts 

 small, ovate, ciliolate. Calyx 1 lin. long, very scantily pubescent or 

 glabrous.; sepals ovate, ciliolate. Corolla over 1^ in. long in bud, quite 

 glabrous ; tube widened at the upper third, then narrowed towards the 

 mouth, 9 lin. long, fleshy, especially towards the mouth ; lobes linear- 

 oblong, (j-7 lin. long, 1 J lin. broad. A nthers inserted at the upper third 

 of the corolla-tube, scarcely IJ lin. long. Ovary glabrous, oyoid, 

 gradually passing into the style ; stigma cylindric, bifid, with ^ 

 thickened base, the whole pistil G-7 lin. long. Fruit short, conical, 1 J in. 

 long, 1| in. broad at the base, glabrous, smooth, edible; pedicels or 

 pedunclas stout, flexuous, 1-2 in. long. — Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. 

 Paris, 1898, 88. Clitandra macranthxi, Hallier f. Kautschuklinnen in 

 Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 8. Beih. 117. 



ITpper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Talla district, near Nniiii, in woods, Scott- 

 ^lliot, 4924 1 and without precise looality, Afzelius I 



22. C. lanceolata, K. Schum. in Engl, d- Prantl, P/lanzedfam. 

 iv. ii. 182. A perfectly glabrous perennial erect herb; annual shoots 



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