]IH> Lxxxiv. ArocYXAC'E.t: (staff). [Funtumiu. 



stipules ; axillary glands small, numerous. Flowers small or middle- 

 sized, in congested axillary cymes, whitish or yellowish. 

 Species 3, endemic. 



Flower-buds cylindric, 7-9 lin. long; corolia-lobes 



linear, distinctly longer than the tube. . . 1. F. africana. 



Flower-buds conical, 3-6 lin. long ; corolla-lobes 

 oblong, shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla-tube glabrous without, constricted near the 



base; disc exceeding the ovary, 5-creiiulate . 2. F. elastica. 

 Corolla-tube very minutely pubescent without, 

 constricted just below the middle ; disc 

 shorter than the ovary, 5-lobed , . . 3. jP. latifolia. 



1 . F. africana, Stajrfin Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. A tree 15-80 ft. 

 high ; tiunk cylindric ; bark grey, smooth ; branchlets terete or com- 

 pressed below the nodes, more or less black when dry. Leaves oblong, 

 rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, attenuated or 

 rounded at the base, 5-1) in. long, 1^-3 j in. broad; margins undulate, 

 quite glabrous above, usually pubescent and always efoveolate in the 

 leaf -axils; secondary nerves O-IO (rarely 11) on each side, oblique; 

 veins obscure ; petiole 2-4: lin. long. Cymes shortly peduncled, many- 

 flowered, dense, glabrous ; peduncle o lin. long ; bracts small, ovate, 

 acute or subacute ; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 1 J lin. long ; 

 sepals broad-ovate or elliptic, each with several glands at the base. 

 Corolla yellowish, subcylindric and 7-9 lin. long in bud ; tube con- 

 stricted just below the middle, 3-4 lin. long, glabrous ; lobes linear, 

 5-G lin. long. Disc 5-lobed or 5-partite, shorter than the ovary. 

 Follicles spindle-shaped, acutely acuminate, semiteiete, sides slightly 

 keeled. Seeds 6-8 lin. long ; awn IJ-lf in. long, naked at the base, 

 hairs 21 lin. long.— Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. tt. 2G96-2697 ; Schlechter, 

 Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 236 ; De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, x. 

 (1902), 74. Kickxia africuTuiy Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 1276 ; Henriques 

 in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 141 ; Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 90, and in 

 Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (excl. the fruit); K. Schum. in 

 Notizbh Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217-221 with figures (excl. the 

 fruit) ; Warb. in Tropenpfl. i. 99-103 with figures (excl. the fruit) ; 

 Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon, i. 12-19, 41-47, figs. 1 and 2 ; Preuss in 

 Tropenpfl. iii. 65-71 ; Jumelle, Les Plant, a Caoutch. 68-73, fig. 10 (excl. 

 the fruit) ; Preuss in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353-360, 

 t. 2 ; De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, vii. 633, 634 and 747 ; Schlechter 

 in Tropenpfl. iv. 326-330, and 41, 158, 160, 194, 202, 206, 235, 236, 238 

 (with fig.), 307; Yilb. in Warb. Plant, a Caoutch. 201, fig. 14. 

 K. africana, vars. Klainii and inera, Pierre ex Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. 

 tt. 2696-2697. K. Zenkeri, K. Schum. in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. 

 Berlin, iil 81. K. Gilletii, De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, vii. 744. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Kukuna, on the Scarcies River, Scoti- 

 Elliot, 4506 ! Bagru River, Mann, 817 ! and without precise locality, Haydon f 

 Ivory Coast: Daban, Jolly, 174! 1691! Gold Coast : Sehwhi (Sefwhi) and Wani 

 District, Armitage ! Koforidua, Johnson, 434 ! East Akim, Johnson, 692 ! Togo : in 

 forest on Amedjove Mountain, Schlechter, 12979 (ex Schumann) ; very common in 



