429 
+. 31; Sim. For. Fl. and For. Res. Port. E. Afr. ti. 18, f... À; 
Engl. ne Drude, Veg. Erde, B. p. e f. 198. 
Ver names.—lbo-gidi (W. Prov. S. Nigeria, Thompson); 
Chiwo gue Elliott); Ebo ege o N. Nigeria, Dudgeon); Abo 
or Aboh (Nupe, Barter) ; Bihi (Golo, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Broun); 
Alguluar (Arabic, Blue Nile, Murel): Mukonja (Chindao, Swyn- 
nerton); Umkonza (Singuin, Swynnerton); Matuti, Dituti or 
Rituti (Golungo Alto, Welwi un Ponguendole (Lubefu, De 
nm Mulemu (Ugand Dawe): Mbungu (Zanzibar, 
Morris, Holmwood); Mbungu (Dar Salem, Kirk); Mantchocongo 
(Lower Tdi Baudon 
Nupe, Bassa, Kontagora, Lagos, etc., and widely distributed in 
Tropical Africa. 
This was formerly believed to be one of the important sources 
of African rubber, but Dawe (Uganda), — (Congo), De 
Wildeman and Gentil (Congo) Hua and Chevalier (Senegal, 
Sudan and French Guinea), Purves SS dogs rer var. leiantha, 
Herb. Kew) all agree that it is of no value. Dudgeon (Nos. 21, 
64, N. Nigeria, in Herb. Kew) describes it as the ciet of ‘* Ebo 
paste rubber "' made by boiling the latex with an equal quantity 
of “balsam of copaiba"' (Daniellia thurifera); though it is not 
so used in the Gambia (Agric. and For. Prod. W. Afr. p. 9) 
Monteiro (Angola, in Herb. Kew) states that “< the indiarubber of 
the South-West Coast is derived from this creeper. “I 
.rubber"' is very resinous and of little commercial value, it is 
Veste collected by the natives in Kontagora, both from the 
root and stem (Dalziel, Bull. Imp. Inst. 1907, p. 262). 
The fruit is edible, though according to Barter (Her erb. Kew) 
very sour; eaten in Nupe; aromatic, milky, edible, agreeably 
acidulous and the sicot appreciated of all the fruits of the genus 
by the Natives of Golungo Alto (Hiern, Cat. Welw., Afr. Pl. Le. 
pp- 662, 663). 
A large woody climber, sometimes 1 ft. or more in diameter 
(De Wildeman and Gen til), with white scented flowers; in 
ravines, Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), abundant on Seabee: 
Bahr-el-Ghazal (Broun, Herb. Kew), in nearly all the primeval 
forests in the interior of Angola, at an altitude of 1500-2500 ft. 
(Hiern, 1.c.), common usc Uganda (Dawe, Rep. Bot. Miss. 
For. Dist. Uganda, 1906, p. 50). 
Ref.—'! Landolphia comorensis, var. florida, in Med. Pflan 
Köhler. iii. 44 pages.—— ** Landolphia flo vida,” Hua and Cheva- 
lier, in Journ. * de Bot. Paris, xv. 1901, [** Les pone | (lianes 
a caoutchouc) du Piani du Soudan et de la Guinée Fran "TE 
pp. 83-86.——'* Landolphia florida," in Notizblatt Bot. Gart. 
Berlin. No. 45, 1909, pp. 115-116; and see the works referred to 
under Illustrations. 
Lando!'phia owariensis, Beauv. - Fl. Trop. Afr. I. Sect. 1, p. 49. 
Ill.—Pal. de Paur, Fl. Ow. Ben. i. t. 34; Lam. nego t. 930; 
Collins, Caoutchouc. 1; Clouth, Gummi and Ba 
p. 17, f. 8; Bot. Centralb. lxi. 1895, t. 2, ff 1321 (anatomical); 
