Fleiocarpa.] Lxxxiy. apocynace^ (staff). 103 



clusters. Calyx f lin. long ; sepals broad, ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 unknown. Carpels 2, 2-ovuled. Berries ellipsoid or obovoid, minutely 

 apiculate, 3-4 lin. long (immature). — Hunteria pycnanthay Hallier f. 

 Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hambuig. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 

 3. Beih. 191 partly, not of K. Schum. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Niamuiam, Mbrvvole River, Schiveinfurth, 

 3073 ! 



9. POLYADOA, Stapf. 



Calyx very small ; sepals 5, almost free, firm, coriaceous, obtusely 

 keeled, acute or obtuse, with scale- or finger-shaped glands within, more 

 or, less coated with resin. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube subcylindric, more 

 or less widened below the naked mouth ; lobes 5, oblong, overlapping to 

 the left, twisted in bud. Anthers enclosed in the widened part of the 

 tube, ovate to lanceolate ; cells obtuse at and dehiscent to the base. 

 Disc. 0. Carpels 2, free ; style filiform ; stigma at the level of the 

 anthers or almost so, oblong -ellipsoid, viscid, subpapillose all over except 

 at the smooth bifid apex ; ovules 10-24 in 3-6 rows. Fruit unknown. — 

 Small glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, 

 with distant or close, spreading nerves ; axillary stipules ; axillary 

 glands obscure or 0. Flowers in terminal or pseudo-axillary, subsessile 

 or shortly peduncled, clusters or congested corymbs. " Ajyocynaceay 

 quoad genus dubia," Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 90. 



Species 2, endemic. 



Leaves 5-S in. long, 2-3 in. broad ; middle secondary 



nerves 5-9 lin. apart . . . . .1. P. Kmbellata. 



Leaver 3-5 in. long, l.]-2 in. hi'oad ; middle 



secondary nerves 2-3 lin. apart . . . 2. P. l£Uioiii. 



1. P. umbellata, Stci])/. A small tree 24-30 ft. high, with very 

 hard wood ; young branches much compressed, drying blackish- or 

 reddish-brown, older ones with a few warty lenticels. Leaves elliptic 

 to broad-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate or subacuminate, 

 acute at the base, 4-9 in. long, IJ-oJ in. broad, chartaceous, drying 

 brown ; midrib channelled above, much raised beneath ; secondary 

 nerves about 10-14 on each side, rather oblique, straight to beyond the 

 middle, slightly raised on both sides but principally below ; veins 

 inconspicuous ; petiole J-| in. long. Flowers many in subsessile, 

 rarely distinctly peduncled, terminal or pseudo-terminal clusters, or 

 congested umbelliform inflorescences ; pedicels up to lA lin. long. 

 Calyx very resinous ; sepals rotundate-ovate, obtuse, with numerous 

 cylindric glands within, |-f lin. long. Corolla yellowish-white ; 

 tube slender, 3-3^ lin. long, sparsely pubescent below the stamens ; 

 lobes flexuous, linear-oblong, as long as or slightly longer than 

 the tube. Anthers ovate-oblong, subacute, h Hn. long. Ovules about 

 ()-seriate, 3-4 in each row.— Ca/yodbnis umbellata, K. Schum. in Enol. 

 Jahrb. xxiii. 221 : Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38. Hunteria. 



