452 
Westafr. ET otk Exp. p. 238 HE. See): Hook. is Lt. s 
2696-2697 (K. africana, var. Klainei and var. iners); Hollan 
DUI C Cult. W. Africa, t. 1; arbi PE cien “19035 
01 (K. africana, fl. only); Jumelle, Pl. Caoutchouc pays chauds 
fion p. 382 (F rere) p. 989 (fr. and dE Tropenptl. 1904, 
Kickria africa na); De Wildeman, Mis n E. Laurent, ii. 
aS distribuiod in Wai eee ficis Sierra dem to the 
Cameroons and the Gabun sometimes with Funtumia elastica. 
The latex coagulates into a paste-like substance of no commer- 
cial value in itself, but used to ner the latex of good rubber 
in S. Nigeria (Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, p. 39; Dudgeon, 
Agric. and For. Prod. W. Mfr. p. 99), and = the Gold Coast 
(Chipp, List of Trees, Gold Coast (1913) p. 27). 
The wood is sometimes used for stools, Gold Coast (Chipp, l.c.), 
of no value for export but useful locally, Gold Coast (Armitage, 
Bull. Imp. Inst. 1910, p. 238); wood Se and soft, used by the 
natives of the Ivory Coast to make calabashes and plates (Cheva- 
lier, Les Vég. Util. l'Afriq. Trop. Franc. v. p. 122); een 
385 Ib. per cubic ft. according to Bull. iu». Inst. (Lc. 
density 0-488 (Chevalier, l.c.), and a perum: n the Museum 
at Kew has a specifie gravity of 0-401 = 25 Ib. per cubic ft. 
A tree 15-80 ft. high, trunk up to 10 ft. in circumference 
(Mann. Mus. Kew); a tree at Itu, Old Calabar River, stood 70- 
80 ft. high with a eireumference near the base of 3 ft. 2 in . (Hol- 
land, No. 5, 1897, Herb. Kew). Similar in habit to F. elastica, 
and distinguished by the absence of pits in the axils of the mid- 
rib and lateral nerves on the underside of the leaf, the larger 
yellowish ere the long and narrow follicle and cream- 
coloured flos 
The seeds bos been found as an a of official Strophan- 
thus seed, S. Kombe and S. hisp hough very similar in 
general appearance the seeds ‘of plene. may be readily 
separated by the spindle shape, absence of hairs and the folded 
cotyledons, against the flattened, hairy surface and straight 
cotyledons in Strophanthus, and further UII to Siedler 
Zeitschr. des. Oesterr. Apoth. Ver. xxxv. p. 398; Year Book 
harm. 1897. p. 158) transverse sections ot the seeds assume a 
brown and subsequently a cherry red colour in Funtumia and a 
