«8 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [^Carpodiuus. 



27. C. (?) Iganda, Pierre in Bull Soc. Linn. Pao-is, 1808, 38 

 (name only). 



XiO'wer Guinea* Gaboon : Fernaiid Vaz, Foret. 



This is evidently the plant described by Jumello, Plant, a Caoutchouc et a Gutta, 

 102, under the native name " Iganda." It is one of tlie rubber plants sent by Foret 

 irom Fernand Vaz to the Musee colonial de Marseilles. It is described thus : 

 IJranches brown with short white hairs and scanty lenticels. Leaves elliptic, rounded 

 at the base, acuminate, 5 in. long, 2 in. broad ; lateral nerves 10-12 on each side, 

 •slightly raised ; petiole 7 lin. long. Fruit globose, brown, smooth, almost 3 in. in dia'.n. 

 Pierre refers it with some doubt to his section Anichinea. 



28. C. Jumellei, Piei-^'e in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 (name 

 only). A climber ; branches covered with short, stiff, reddish hairs ; 

 lenticels numerous, yellowish. Leaves ovate, acutely and shortly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, 4 J in. long, 2| in. broad; lateral nerves 

 5-6 on each side ; petiole 4 lin. long. Flowers in cymes. Calyx hispid 

 with reddish hairs, 1 lin. long. Fruit globose, brown when dry, 2J in. 

 in diam. Seeds 8. — Jumelle, PI. a Caoutchouc et a Gutta, 100. 



ZiO'wer Guinea. Frencli Congo, Foret. 



29. C. Gentilii, De Wild. Apocyn. a Latex rec. par Gentil, 28. A 

 powerful climber; stem over 1 ft. in diam. ; young branches covered 

 •with stiff spreading brown hairs, at length glabrous, and dotted with 

 yellowish-white lenticels. Leaves elliptic or obovate, abruptly acute, 

 cuneate or rounded at the base (rarely subcordate), o-4| in. long, ] 3-2| 

 in. broad, hairy (chiefly on the nerves) above, subhirsute below ; midrib 

 channelled above ; secondary nerves about 1 1 on each side, oblique, 

 finely channelled above, connected by distinct marginal arches ; petiole 

 5 lin. long, hirsute. Fruit subglobose, 4| in. long, 4 in. in diam. ; 

 orange-yellow, tubercled ; pericarp 7-15 lin. thick when fresh. Seeds 

 8-30, 8-9 lin. long, embedded in an acid, edible, whitish-yellow pulp. 



South Central. Congo Free State : between Lake Leopold and Lake Tuinba, 

 Gentil. 



Said to be allied to C.fidva. 



5. CARISSA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. G95. 



Calyx sm«ril, eglandular, very rarely muitiglandular within ; sepals 5, 

 very rarely 4, free or nearly so, imbricate, acute or acuminate. Corolla 

 •salver-shaped ; tube slightly widened below the mouth or near the 

 middle ; lobes usually overlapping to the right, rarely to the left. 

 Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the corolla-tube; filaments 

 short, slender ; anthers oblong, acute ; cells obtuse at the base, pollini- 

 ferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, 2- celled; 

 ovules 1-4 in each cell, from the middle of the septum, rarely more in 

 2-8 rows ; style filiform ; stigma at the level of the anthers, or rarely 

 some way below them, oblong, papillose and viscous, with a 2-lobed 



