86 Lxxxiv. APOCYXACE-E (stapf). [Carpodi7iu8 



1-2 ft. Ingli, from a long creeping slender rhizome. Leaves opposite 

 or teriiate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute on both ends or the 

 tips acuminate or subobtuse, 3-5 in. long. 5-1 G lin. broad, thinly sub- 

 coriaceous, shining above, with black dots beneath ; midrib channelled 

 above, channel usually rather wide; lateral nerves subhorizontal, 

 faint, 10-15 on each side, connected quite close to the margins by very 

 flat faint arches; veins delicate ; petiole slender, 2-5 lin. long. Cymes 

 few-flowered, terminal, sometimes also from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaves ; peduncles up to 1 J in. long, like the short pedicels glabrous or 

 pubescent in the upper part ; bracts oblong, up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 

 pubeiulous, H-lJ lin. long; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse or subacute. 

 Coiolla glabi'ous without, white ; tube slender, slightly widened below 

 the mouth, 5 lin. long; lobes linear, subacute, slightly longer than 

 the tube. Ovary glabrous at the very base, otherwise pubescent like 

 the style. Fruit pear-shaped, not quite 2 in. long ; seeds few, about 

 lin. long.— Warb. in Tropenpfl. i. (1897) l:^>4, fig. A-D. ; Sadebeck 

 Nutzpfl. Deutsch. Kolon. in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xiv.,. 

 n. Beih. 122, & Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 276; Stapf in Wild. <k 

 Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 2, i. fasc. i. 

 »iC, fasc. ii. 39 ; Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstoffe, ed. 2, 3G3 ; Henriques^ 

 Kautschuk, 19, Tab. iv. ; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Ham- 

 burg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 115, t. iii., fig. 5; 

 Mollei- in Tropenpfl. iv. (1901) 4G1 ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk - 

 Exped. 51, 232, 30G, 52 with fig.; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 

 in Ann. Mus= Congo, Bot. ser. 3, fasc. ii. 148. 



Jaower Guinea. Lower Congo: Dolo plains near Stanley Pool, Schlec/ifer^ 

 ]244.7! ne.w heopoldviWo, Latirent ; Detverre, 489 I Tnuipa, Lanre}it ! Calar District, 

 Laiirevf. Angola : country of the Gangella and Amboella, Marques, 1 ! Majakalla 

 country. Mechozo, 520 ! 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : ^e\e\-ah?io, Demeuse, 110! Basliilange ; 

 by the Kai-ai Kiver, near Kikassa, Pogge, 1157 ! Bena Dilule (Dible), Luja, 266 I 

 between tbc Luf ubu River and X} angwe, Pogge^ 1074 ! 



According to Dewevre, C. lanceolata assumes occasionally the habit of a climber, 

 developing at tliesame time tendrils. It fields most of the root-rubber of the Congo. 



Imperfectly knoivn species. 



23. C. acida, Sabine in Trans. Ilort. Soc. v. 45G. — DC. Prod. viii. 

 320; Hook. Niger Fl. 446; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocjn. 141, 321; 

 Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 37 ; Jumelle, PL a Caoutchouc et 

 a Gutta, 02 ; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 

 Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 107 ; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 

 120, not of Bchweinf. 



Vpper Guinea. Sierra Leone : by the side of a rivulet in th'c mountains near 

 ¥ree Town, Don. 



TImk is known only from the fruits which are said to be acid and somewhat smaller 

 than tlmrc of C. dulcis. It is, according to G. Don (ex Sabine, I.e.), a more straggling- 



