Oarpodinus.] Lxxxiv. apocynace^ (stapf). 87 



climber than C. dnlcis, and only two specimens of it were found. Planchon mentions, 

 it as producing a kind of rubber. The " C. acidus" of Schweinfurth (Heart of 

 Africa, i. 185) is evidently Landolphia owariensis. 



24. C. foretiana, Pierre ex JumeUey Plant, a Caoutch. et a Outta,. 

 98. A powerful climber; stem over 2-J in. in diam. ; branches 

 glabrous, blackish-brown, dotted with small yellowish lenticels. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, with rounded or cuspidate tips, up to 1 1 in. long, 6 in. 

 broad, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above ; secondary nerves 7-9 on each 

 side, oblique, much raised below ; petiole about 5 lin. long. Flowers of 

 the size of those of the ordinary lilac, white, scentless. Fruit ovoid- 

 globose, over H in. long and 2| in. in diam. ; seeds 20-25. — Pierre in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 181i8, ;^)8. 



lower Guinea. Gaboon : Fernand Vaz, Foret. 



Two leaves of C. foretiana communicated by Jumelle to the Berlin herbarium 

 so much resemble those of C. maxima, that I would not hesitate 16 refer them to thi* 

 species if it were not for the tiowers of C. foretiana being described as small (of the 

 size of lilac flowers), whilst they are comp.u'atively large in C. maxima. 



25. C. fulva, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 {name 

 only). A very tall climbing shrub, with long flagelliform tendrils \. 

 young branches and tendrils more or less densely hispid with long 

 reddish spreading hairs, the former with numerous inconspicuous 

 lenticels. Leaves obovate-oblong, abruptly, .shortly and acutely acumi- 

 nate, slightly cordate at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2-2J in. broad, sub- 

 coriaceous, slightly shining above with stiff' hairs on both sides, but 

 chiefly on the nerves below, finally glabrescent above; midrib finely 

 channelled above; secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, slightly sunk 

 above, distinctly raised below, connected by bold arches; veins fine, 

 distinct, loosely anastomosing ; petiole 3-4 lin. long. Flowers unknown 

 Fruit lemon-shaped, apiculate, almost 2 in. long, yellow, hairy when 

 young. — Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 

 Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 10« partly. 



IttOwer Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, DinJclage, 575 ! and without 

 precise locality, Klaine, 1400 ! 



Hallier (I.e.) also refers specimens from Togo (Baumann, 520!) and from Mon- 

 butlu (Schweinfurth, 3482 !), all without flowers or fruits, to this species, to which 

 they bear a certain general resemblance without however, agreeing exactly, and the 

 Togo specimens are more likely to be identical with C. hirstita. 



26. C. griffoniana, Pierre ex Jumelle, Plant, ct Caoutchouc et d 

 GuUa, 98. 



Nothing is known about thisspecies except that it is allied to C. foretiana. It is 

 probably the plant mentioned by Pierre, in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 9.S, n» 

 Sclerodictyon griffonianum. See Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jnbrb. Hamburg. 

 Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 156. Pierre says that in the .shape of the 

 leaves it resembles his Ancylobotrys maminosa, var. mucronata, iind that the leaves 

 are thin and faintly nerved. 



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