198 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACEiE (stapf). [Alofia. 



dark above, pale green beneath ; secondary nerves G-9 on each side; 

 veins very faint; petiole 1-2 lin. long. Corymbs rather lax with the 

 primary branches mostly elongate and spreading, up to 3J in. in diam., 

 scantily and very minutely puberulous ; peduncle 1-1 J in. long; 

 bracts minute, ovate ; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx J lin. long,, 

 scantily puberulous or almost glabrous ; sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 white, fragrant; tube 2 lin. long, hairy below the stamens, very 

 minutely puberulous above them ; lobes broad, elliptic or almost orbi- 

 cular, 2 lin. long, villous or glabrous near the base, villous-ciliate on 

 the inner margin. Staminal cone reaching to the corolla-mouth, Ij 

 lin. long. Carpels densely pubescent. Follicles very slender, glabrous, 

 1 ft. long ; seeds 8 lin. long, coma 1 J in. long — K. Schum. in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pllanzenfam. iv. ii. 1G5, and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk. 

 Exped. 306. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Kwahu, 2000 ft., Johnson, 664 ! Lagos : 

 Lago?, Millen, 132 ! Punch, 19 ! Oshogbo, Millson I Ishagamo, Schlechter,. 

 12301 ; Interior, Rowland ! Southern Nigeria : Oiiitsa, Barter, 1321 ! 



5. A. lucida, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 122. A tall, scandent 

 shrub, up to 40 ft. high, quite glabrous except the inflorescences ; 

 branches blackish when dry. Leaves obovate to oblong or elliptic^ 

 obtuse or obscurely acuminate, acute to cuneate at the base, 2-4 in., 

 long, 1-lf in. broad, more or less coriaceous, shining and dark above^ 

 pallid below ; secondary nerves 4-5 on each side, oblique ; veins very 

 lax, faint ; petiole up to 2 J lin. long. Corymbs shortly peduncled or 

 sessile, many-flowered or reduced to few-flowered cymes, very finely, 

 and sometimes scantily, puberulous ; peduncle up to 6 lin. long ; bracts 

 minute ; pedicels slender, up to 2J lin. long. Calyx almost glabrous, 

 J-} lin. long; sepals ovate. Corolla fragrant, yellow with a red 

 centre ; tube lJ-2 lin. long ; hairy within below the stamens, other- 

 wise glabrous or very minutely puberulous ; lobes obliquely truncate- 

 obovate, ciliolate on the inner side, 3-5 lin. long. Anther-tips very 

 shortly exserted. Carpels slightly pubescent. Follicles 7-12 in. long, 

 glabrous. — K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 231. A. cuneata, Stapf, 

 I.e. 122 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 673. A. reticulata, K. Schum. 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 165. Wrightia Stuhlmannii, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319, and in Engl. & Prantl, I.e. 

 183. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Delta : hanks of the River Nun, Mann, 491 ! Old 

 Calubar River, Mann, 2245 ! Cameroons : Yaunde, Ztnker S^ Staudt, 145 ! Bipinde, 

 Zenker, 1450 ! 



Wile Xiand. Uganda: Entebbe Forest, Whyte,K\ Mahon / and without 

 precise locality, Johnston ! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Muni (Danger) River, Mann, 1752 ! Angola : 

 Grolungo Alto ; in dense forests of Alto Queta and near Caniilungo, Weiwitsc\ 

 5953 ! Luanda, Welwitsch, 5954 ! 



nCozamb. 3>ist. German East Africa : Karagwe ; Bukoba, Stuhlmanny 

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