Liberia * 



:',lary pedicels and arranged in racemes or often very long 

 Icles ; Monrovia, \Vhytc ! 



Al'OCYNACK.r. 



Landolphia florida, ttoith. (syn. L. comorensis var. florida, K. ScJiuin^} : 

 a very tall powerful climber with flagelliform tendrils, more or 

 elliptic obtuse or shortly acuminate glabrous leaves (3 7 in. 

 by 3 in.), terminal many-flowered corymbs of fragrant showy 

 white (lowers with a yellow centre, and globose yellow fruits 

 up to 4 in. in diameter; Murphytown and Batombatown, 

 \VJiyte (from drawings). The latex of this liane, which is common 

 throughout Tropical Africa, is worthless; but it is frequently 

 iiMil by the natives as an admixture to better kinds. The pulp 

 of the fruit is edible and of a pleasant acid taste. 



L. owariensis, ttcauv. (Plate 250) : a climbing shrub attaining some- 

 times considerable dimensions with long hook-branched tendrils, 

 more or less oblong acuminate or almost obtuse leaves (3 6 

 in. by i 3 in.), many-flowered brownish-tomentose cymes, 

 often arranged in panicles, small white flowers which soon turn 

 brown, and wrinkled or irregularly grooved globose fruits, 

 yellow mottled with red, up to 2\ in. in diameter; Greenville, 

 near the Sino River, Sim and Whytc\ This is one of the 

 principal sources of West African rubber, and probably the 

 most valuable rubber liane. 



L. spec, i : a robust climber with rather stout compressible 



glabrous shoots, elliptic to oblong or sub-acuminate leaves 



which are rounded or cordate at the base (5 6 in. by 2\ 4^ 



in. and glabrous, and possess about 5 very oblique nerves 



which an- connected by bold arches near the margin; they 



n short stout petioles which are connected across 



the stem by a prominent ridge. The flowers are unknown. 



The fruits, according to a drawing by Whyte, arc borne on 



rt stout pedicels in panicles which are partly transformed 



into tendrils ; they are ellipsoid globose, 3 in. by 2\ in., yellow 



i smooth, and contain about a dozen seeds; Sino, near the 



iville, Sim, 31 ! This yields, according to 



x eel lent rubber. 



known only from a drawing and notes by 

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