491 
Iill.—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2568; Journ. de Bot. Paris, xv. 1901, 
117, A, A! (fruits); Hua m Chevalier, Les Landolphiées, 
Sénégal, Sou dan, Guin. Franc. p. 33, f. 5, A , A’ (fruits); De 
md and Gentil, Lianes Congo, f. 8, A (fruit s). 
mes.—Codoudou P Scares i Chevalier); Ouennyi 
diee hatalior, Bouéry); Ovengi (French Guinea, Farmar); 
Kushument poe Leone, Scott Elliot); Pishamin (Sierra Leone;. 
Scott Elliot, 
odii us: Scere Leone, French Guinea, Bambarra. 
Fruit edible, Sierra Leone (Kirk, Scott Elliot, Herb, Kew) ; 
the coagulated latex used as bird-lime y the natives, Sierra 
Leone ( op Elliot, Herb. Kew), of no value as Sube 
Ref.— “ Carpodinus dulcis," in “ = Landolphiées (Lianes à 
pees hohe. du Sénégal, du Soudan et de la Guinée Francaise," 
a et Chevalier, pp. 32-34 (Augustin Challamel, Paris, E e 
[jet from Journ. de Botanique, Paris, xv. 1901, pp. 116-118 
Carpodinus fulva, Pierre; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 87. 
Ill.—De Wildeman, Mission E. Laurent, t. 161. 
Gaboon, 
Mentioned as yielding an inferior quality of Euer in the 
Central Division, S. Nigeria (Thompson, Col. Rep. Ann. 512, 
1906, p. 23), in the Mamu ois (Lbid. Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 
1908, p. 5) and common on the Niger (l.c. p. 38). 
Carpodinus hirsuta, Hua; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 77. 
ill.—Journ. de Bot. Paris, xv. 1901, p. ae 25 B ey De 
Wildeman and Gentil, Lianes, Congo, p. 101, f. 8 B (fruit). 
Vernac. —[Ibo Elekiti (Yoruba); Gen) (Boum. 
E (Ibo) (T hompson)] ; Ibo (Lagos, Moloney , Higginso fa 
a Papu (Lagos, Moloney) ; Ari beds (Bassa, Elliott, Ded Rn 
Xe (Asaba, Unwin). 
Lagos, eee Cross River, in S. Provinces Nigeria; m 
Gurara River, in N. Provinces, Nigeria; also on the Gold Coa 
Yields a rübbér of inferior quality known as “‘ Flake Rubbe er," 
** Paste Rubber r, ** Alibida Rubber," and one of the so-called 
** root-rubbers " (see Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, 5, 38). 
The latex is largely employed to adulterate that of Zuntumia 
elastica (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, p. 44); coagu- 
lated by boiling into a sticky product of the soient of bird- 
lime, and only saleable in Europe at a low price (Dudgeon, Agric. 
d For. Prod. W. Afr. p. 98), value locally, Asaba, 6d. per Ib. 
(Unwin, Mus. Kew, MSS. Report , 1907). These views are borne 
out by an analysis of '' Flake Rubber ” from Northern Nigeria 
which shows this to contain only 9-4 per cent. of i ap iE with 
the high proportion of 88:8 per cent. of resin (Co 
No. 82, 1912, p. 365). A common vine in the dry ee 3 on the 
Niger river "banks Po AER l.c.), in the Onitsha hinterland 
district, where it has been practically exterminated bys the 
practice of wens ‘the root rubber (Thompson, Col. Rep 
