598 ADDENDA. 



5. Carpodinus dulcis, Sabine. Add : Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat. Par. vi. (1900) 317, 423. 



ba. Carpodinus oocarpa, Stapf. A climbing shrub with pseudo- 

 axillary flagelliform tendrils ; young branchlets softly hairy, (tomentum 

 consisting of short subadpressed and more or less numerous long rust- 

 coloured hairs), at length glabrescent, brown with minute lenticels. 

 Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, distinctly and often abruptly acuminate 

 (acumen 4-7 lin. long, slender, acute or subacute), minutely but 

 distinctly cordate, very rarely rounded at the base, 2|-5 in. long, \\-2 

 in. broad, coriaceous, usually sparingly fulvo-hirsute on the midrib 

 below otherwise glabrous except when quite young ; midrib narrowly 

 channelled above, much raised below ; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, 

 slightly channelled above, raised below, connected by bold arches rather 

 distant from the margin ; petiole 1-3 lin. long. Cymes axillary, sessile, 

 contracted, fulvo-hirsute, few-flowered ; flowers sessile ; bracts about G 

 with each flower, oblong to lanceolate, the inner adpressed to the calyx, all 

 fulvo-hirsute, 1| lin. long. Calyx IJ-l^^ lin. long ; sepals 4, ovate, 

 acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube slender, 4i lin. long, widened above the 

 insertions of the stamens, perfectly glabrous without, with a few hairs 

 in the widened part within ; lobes narrow-lanceolate, as long as the 

 tuba or slightly longer, twisted. Ovary densely hirsute above the 

 middle ; style very slender, minutely crispo-puberulous except at the 

 hirsute base, 4 lin. long. Fruit according to a drawing by Whyte more 

 or less egg-shajDed oblong or ellipsoid^ obtuse, 2^-4 in. long, lJ-2 in. 

 across, yellow, rough transversely rugose. Seeds 30-60. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia; within 20 miles of Karka Town, 

 Whyte ! Sinou basin, Whyte, 9 ! 3 ! Greenville, Sim, 7 ! 27 ! 



Very closely allied to C. dulcis, and only differing from it in the leaves having 

 cordate bases and fewer more distant nerves, shgl-tly larger flowers and egg-shaped 

 or ellipsoid, perfectly obtuse fruits. 



One of Sim's spocimons, numbered 7, has quite glabrous leaves with rounded 

 base and almost glabrous brandies. This yields, according to Whyte, good rubber. 



6. Carpodinus hirsuta, Ilua. Add : Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat. Par. vi. (1900), 423; Arnaud, in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Par. viii. (1902), 70; De Wild. & Gentil, Lian. Caoutch. Congo, 101, 

 fig. 8, B. 



(\a. Carpodinus globulifera, K. Schnm. in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 

 31(1. A shrub, climbing with hook-branched tendrils, springing from 

 the branch-forks ; young branches stout, hirsute or hispid with reddish 

 spreading hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, cuspidate or rounded at 

 the apex, slightly sinuate at the base, 1|-4J in. long, 1-3 in. broad, 

 coriaceous, drying blackish-brown above, sparingly hirsute above, soon 

 glabrescent except the midrib, densely and softly hairy below, midrib very 

 finely channelled above ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, rather 

 spreading, slender ; petiole stout, 21 lin. long, densely hirsute. Flowers 

 in dense hirsute sessile globose clusters in the leaf-axils ; bracts ovate, 



