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secondary nerves about lO on each side, horizontal, faint, connected by 

 submarginal arches; veins scarcely visible; petiole channelled, U-2 

 lin. long. Panicles short, congested, axillary and pseudo-terminal, 

 about lO-flowered, loose, shortly pubescent, abou^ 1 lin. long. Sepals 

 ovate-oblong, f lin. long, keeled, ciliate. Corolla hite, glabrous ; tube 

 f lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse, 3 lin. long. Anthers exceeding the 

 corolla-mouth. Ovary ovoid ; style short. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Eastern Kwango ; banks of the Juma 

 River, Oentil. 



The description exactly tits C. Mannii, with the exeei)tiun of the iiiHoresc-cncc 

 which is described as pubescent in C. Oentili, whilst it is perfectly glabroua in 

 C. Mannii. 



14«. Clitandra membranacea, Stapf. A climbing perfectly 

 glabrous shrub, with long very slender tendrils ; branches very slender, 

 terete, green, at length pale brown, lenticels very scattered, inconspicu- 

 ous. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate" (acumen 4-8 

 lin. long, subacute or obtuse), minutely cordate at the base, 3-4 in. 

 long, IJ-lJ in. broad, thin-papery; midrib very slightly convex above, 

 much more so below ; secondary nerves 7-9 on each side, very slender, 

 oblique, connected by faint arches, like the loose veins very faintly 

 raised on both sides; petioles up to li lin. long, rather broad at the 

 base. Flowers solitary (always ?) in the leaf-axils, subsessile ; bracts 

 about 6, gradually increasing upwards, ovate, sparingly ciliolate. Calyx 

 1 lin. long, green ; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, sparingly and miuutely 

 ciliolate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, 5 lin. long in bud, greenish ; 

 tube urceolate-campanulate, shortly exserted from the cjilyx ; lobes 

 linear, obtuse, 4 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers erect, ovate-lanceolate 

 reaching to the corolla- mouth. Ovary oblong-conic, very minutely 

 hairy; style extremely short ; stigma conical. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia ; Greenville, Sim ! 



Some barren specimens, collected by Whyte in thfi Sinou Basin, with somewhat 

 shorter and broader (elliptic) leaves and very line long tendrils, evidently bi'Ionir to 

 this species. 



Irt. Carpodinus eetveldeana, Ue Wild, in l)e Wild. <(• detail, 

 Lian. Caoutch. Congo, 107, t. xxiii. A strong liane ; stems glabrous, 

 8-12 in. in diam., bark brown, with numerous white lenticels. Leaves 

 elliptic, cuneate at the base, acutely acuminate, l)-\'l in. long, \'i to 

 almost 4 in. broad, glabrous ; midrib channelled above ; secondary 

 nerves 15 on each side, much raised, connected by submarginal arches ; 

 veins rather indistinct; petiole G-15 lin. long. Flowers unknown. 

 Fruit subglobose, truncate at the base, shortly or obscurely apiculato, 

 3-7 in. long, subsessile ; rind yellowish-red, mottled with brown, thick, 

 fleshy, smooth ; seeds 4-40 in a yellow pulp, 1 in. long, G lin. broad. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : near the LuUui Kiver, between Lucbo 

 and Luhiabourg, Geniil, GU. 



De Wildenian suggests r. untxiina as the nearest ally 

 VOL. IV. " 



