Liberia *- 



densely hairy, small icorolla tube in. long, lobes of the same 

 length ; fruit globose, smooth, resembling an orange, 2 3.) in. 

 in diameter ; Greenville, Sim, 35! The yellow pulp of the 

 fruit is edible. Sim's specimen consists of barren branches 

 only, anil the determination is therefore not quite certain. 



A very .similar if not identical lianc occurs on the Gold Coast 

 and in Lagos. It is the " I bo Tree " of Moloney, a name which 

 -enns to be applied to several rubber vines in Upper Guinea. 



C. spec, (i) : a climber very similar to C. oocarpa, Stapf, but with more 

 distinctly cordate thinner leaves and oblong-cylindrical fruits, 

 3 in. long and \\ in. in diameter; Sino Basin, Whyte, 319!; 

 (ireenville, Sim, 27! In the Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. iv. 

 p. 5<>S, I identified it with C. oocarpa, but I am now rather 

 inclined to consider it as distinct. The material at my disposal 

 is, however, too meagre to give a complete technical description. 



C. spec. \2] : a glabrous climber with slender very rough (from corky 

 warts , branches ; leaves oblong, acuminate, acute or rarely obtuse 

 at the base, thinly coriaceous, 2\ 6 in. by \\ 2j in. long, 

 rather pale given, with 7 9 straight slightly oblique side-nerves 

 on each side, which are connected by distinct arches towards 

 the margins, finer veins very obscure, petiole J J- in. long ; 

 flowers unknown, fruits cylindric, 3 4^ by f in., yellow with 

 reddish brown rough irregular warts ; Murphytown and Kaka- 

 town, \Vliytc\\ Sino River, \\-7iyte, <S ! 15! Sim, 9!; Whytc 



hat this yields good rubber. 



\\7iytc and Sim collected several more species of Carpodinns 



or Clitandra in Liberia, but only in barren branches. They 



very similar, and it would require very detailed and technical 



descriptions to bring out the differences. None of them are 



staled to be used in collecting rubber. 



Picralima (?) spec. : a glabrous shrub or tree with slender branches, 



oblong and abruptly long-acuminate coriaceous leaves, 3^4 in. 



long by i \, in., on petioles \ in. long, and traversed by 



numerous very slender side-nerves which spread almost 



at right angles from the dark reddish midrib, and with fruits 



to a sketch by Sim) consisting of 2 oblong-ovoid 



which diverge, but are contiguous in the lower 



third, yellow touards the base, and brown at the tips; Sino 



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