Fanttimia.] lxxxiv. apocynace.e (stapf). 191 



the forests of the A^ome Mountains, and in the Boeni country, ex Schlechter. 

 Soutliern Nigeria: Bonny, Kalhreyer, 82 I Opobo, Holland, lo7 ! Adiabo, Holland^ 

 294! Cross River, at Itu, Holland, .") ! and at Ekure, Holland, 160 ! Camerocnis : 

 forest near Victoria, Preuss, 1382! Bipiude, Zenker, 2280 ! 2280a ! Upper basin 

 of the Munaro Hiver, ex Schlechter. Fernando Po, Mann! 



3Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 662 ! Lower Congo : Kisantu, 

 Gillet ! 



The rubber obtained from this species is sticky like birdlime, and therefore 

 worthless. 



2. F. elastica, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. A tree, up to 

 100 ft. high ; trunk erect, cylindric ; bark pale, spotted; branchlets 

 terete, blackish when dry. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, attenuate at the base, 5-9 in. long, lj-2i in. broad, undulate, 

 quite glabrous, foveolate in the leaf axils ; secondary nerves 7-11 on each 

 side, oblique; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2-5 lin. long. Cymes 

 shortly peduncled, many-flowered, dense, glabrous; peduncle up to ^5 lin. 

 long ; bracts small, broad-ovate, obtuse or subacute; pedicels lh~'-^\ lin. 

 long. Calyx 2-2| lin. long ; sepals very broad, ovate or rotundate ; 

 intracalycular glands usually 2 with each sepal. Corolla white or 

 yellowish, conical in bud, up to (I lin. long ; tube constricted above the 

 base, 3^-4 lin. long, glabrous without ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2h-» lin. 

 long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube. Disc 

 5-partite ; segments crenate, slightly exceeding the ovary. Follicles 

 oblong-clavate when closed, obtuse or rotundate at the apex, woody, 

 obscurely keeled along the sides, 6 in. long. Seeds G-9 lin. long ; awn 

 liV-2| in. long, naked to the middle, hairs up to 2.1, lin. long. — Schlechter, 

 Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 23G ; Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. tt. 2C94- 

 95 ; De Wild, in flev. Cult. Colon, x. 74-70. Kickxia elastlca, Preuss 

 in Notizbl. Kunigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353—360, t. i. ; Warburg. 

 Kautschukpfl. 112, 153 and Plant, a Caoutch. 205; Vilb. in Warb. 

 Plant. aCaoutch. 204, fig. 15,200,207; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. 109- 

 12(»; De Wild, in Bev. Cult. Colon, vii. 033, 634, 743-747. K. 

 africanay Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (the fruit 

 only); K. Schum. in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217-221 

 with plate (the fruit only); Warb. in Tropenfl. i. 99-103 with plate 

 (the fruit only); Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon, i. 12-19, 41-47, fig. 2 

 (the fruit only); Jumelle, Les Plant, a Caoutchouc, 08-7^), fig. 10 

 (fruit only) ; Thonner in De Wild, cfe Durand, PI. Thonner. Congol. 

 xii. ; Henriques, Der Kautschuk, 18, t. iii.; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 110- 

 112 and Plant, a Caoutch. 200-205 partly; not of Benth. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Mamiwug- Hills, Johnson, 255 ! Seliwhi 

 (Sefwhi) and Warn Districts, Armitage ! Ashanti : Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 

 217! Lagos: Jebu District, Millen, 1781 Ibadan, Olubi! forests between 

 Ishagarao and Ibadan, Schlechter, '\2^ld\ and without precise locality. Punch! 

 Denton ! Southern Nigeria : Old Calabar, Holland, 162 ! Lloyd ! Abarogba, on 

 the Cross Kwct, Holland, 158! 159! 161 ! between Insofan and Obeyou, Holland, 

 243! Cameroons: right bank of the Mungo River, between Malende nnd Xyoke, 

 and between Nyoke and Moyoka, Preuss, 1381 ! forests on the Upper Mungo River 



