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This is one of the Ee called *' Ibo," according to Punch 
(No. 45, Herb. Kew) who also states that the juice will not 
coagulate into good rubber. 
CrrrANDRA, Benth. 
Clitandra cirrhosa, Æadlk.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 67. 
Oban, S. dm (Talbot, Nos. 1537, 1351, 1912, Herb. Kew 
ex Herb. Brit. Mus.) found also in the Cameroons and the Gaboon. 
Fruit edible (Zenker, Herb. Kew; Fl. Trop. Afr. l.c.). 
According to Foureau this vine uidi good caoutchouc; which 
the natives, coagulate by rubbing the latex on their chests, after- 
wards stretching it into threads and ro olling it into smal 
cylindrical masses about an inch thick and 4 inches long (Bonnet, 
Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vii. Palle p. 283) 
A climbing shrub. 
Clitandra elastica, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, lii. 
(1906), p. 19. 
A aber up to 60 ft. in height. Bark verrucose owing to the 
presence of numerous lenticels. Young branches flattened, 
glabrous. Leaves oblong elliptic or sometimes broadly elliptic, 
glabrous on both sides, dark green above paler below, about 4-6 in. 
long by about 11-3 in. wide. Petiole sub-cylindrical, 4-5 lin. 
ong. Fruit spherical, size of a mandarin orange, containing 3 
to 5 seeds of the dimensions 6 by 4 by 23 lin. 
Vernac. names.—Ubabikpan ‘Bens, Thompson, Eee) 
Maroni (Bassa, Elliott, eh Marodi PTEE Um in). 
Sapobo, W. Prov. S. Nigeria (Thompson, No. 15, 1906, Herb. 
Kos Old Calabar (Chevalier, No. 13626, 1905, Herb. Kew, 
1907); Bassa, N. Nigeria (Elliott, No. 98, 1904, Herb. Kew). 
Yields good black rubber (Thompson, l.c.); samples in biscuit 
form of ‘‘ Ubabikpan’’ rubber varying from brown to black 
externally, white : within when Bon cut, of bec good quality 
; iger Col. 
No. 630, 1909, p. 38; Bull. a iet. vii. sues p. 299; Col. 
Rep. Misc. No. 82, 1912, p. 364) and a sample of “ Marodi,” a 
l im.) r rough biscuit (6 in. diam.) of brown rubber, was 
at 
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reli (1908) at 2s. 6d. per Ib. in England, with fine hard Para 
at 3s. 1d. per lb. (Bull. Imp. Inst. and Col. Rep. Misc. l.c. and 
Govt. Gaz. S. iod 15th July, 1908, Suppl). 
A large proportion of the rubber exported from Calabar 
p x xg from this plant (l.c.), and according to 
