Liberia * 



\Vhyte collected ;i very similar plant in the sterile state near 

 Sin.., and made sketches of two others which are either identical 

 with or very closely allied to C. incinbraiiacea, at Batombatown. 

 ( )f the latter two he states that the latex is used by the rubber- 

 collectors. 



C. spec, (i): a glabrous climber allied to Clitandra bartcri, Stapf, 

 with long slender tendrils, leaves more or less oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, 3 4i in. by i-J 2 in., coriaceous, dark above, 

 yellowish (in the dry state) beneath, with very numerous (8 9 

 to an inch; much-spreading side-nerves and short petioles ; 

 fruits, according to a drawing by Whyte, ovoid-oblong, narrowed 

 at the top, dull yellow with whitish stripes, 3 in. by \\ in. : Sino, 

 \\'liytc, 4 ! This species is also tapped by the rubber-collectors. 



C. spec. (2) ; similar to the preceding species but the leaves more 

 rounded at the base, 4 6 in. by 2 3 in., with more distant 

 side-nerves and, according to a drawing by Sim, globose dark 

 yellow fruits, about 4 in. in diameter, and marked with very 

 irregular winding grooves ; Greenville, Sim, 14 ! 



*Carpodinus oocarpa, Sfapf (Plate 253) : a climber with flagelliform 

 tendrils; branches softly downy when young; leaves elliptic or 

 oblong, acuminate, minutely cordate at the base, 2-J 5 in. by 

 i | 2 in., coriaceous, hairy on the midrib below, with 4 6 side- 

 ncrvrs connected by bold arches towards the margins and with 

 very short petioles ; flowers in small sessile axillary clusters, 

 slender (corolla tube over J in. long, lobes of the same length) ; 

 fruit, according to a drawing by Whyte, egg-shaped to almost 

 globose, with or without a distinct point, yellow, 2 2j- in. long ; 

 Muiphytown and Kakatown, Whyte\\ Greenville, Sim, 7! 

 Stated by Whyte to yield good rubber. It is very similar to 

 ( 'arpodinus dnlcis, Sabinc, the " Sweet Pishamin " of Sierra 

 e, a species with edible fruits and a sticky latex, which is 

 1 as bird-lime according to Scott Elliot. 



C. hirsuta, // a tall, robust climber with scanty tendrils and 



rather stout densely hirsute branches, the spreading hairs being 

 violet when fresh ; leaves oblong shortly acuminate, subtruncatc 

 or aim- >te at the base, 3 4} in. by ii 2 in., or in 



barren shoots 7 in. by 3^- in., papery, hirsute on the nerves 

 >W, with 6 X oblique curved side-nerves and petioles not 

 (juite } in. long ; flowers in compact sessile axillary clusters, 



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