455 
green colour in Strophanthus on treatment with concentrated 
sulphuric acid. These particulars may also apply to seeds of 
F. elastica. 
Funtumia elastica, iex Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 191. 
Zil.—Kew Bull. 1895, p. 244 (Kickxia africana, fruit only); 
Revue Cult. Col. i. 1897, = 47, f. 2(K. a pee n Tropenpfl. 
1897, pp. 99-103 (figures of fruit only); zbl. Bot. Gart. 
Berlin 1. 1897, No. 7 (K. africana, frui ing Mie Journ 
oc, Arts, xlvi. 18 K. africana, fruit from Kew ; 
W. ih t. x Winburg: Pl. Caoutchouc (190 902), P 204 
= 239 (K. elastica: he, in cd ep. Mise No. 28, 1905, 
p- 9 (tree attacked by caterpillars, Glyphs ocellata); Berichte, 
Land Forstw. Deutsch Ost. Afr. ii. 1905, t. 10 (Kickæia elastica); 
Tropenpfl. 1905, p. 509 (leaf showing pis); De ee Mission 
fi 
p. elxi. Ru tree 5 years old at Tale); u. t. 170 0 (leaf showing 
pits), t 1 (£r. br. with leaves), t. 172 (follicles and leat), tt. 173, 
174 {fcllivles): t. 183 (leaves attacked by ee Dawe, p 
Bot. Miss. Uganda, 1906, t. 5; L'Agric. prat. pays chauds 
vii. 2, 1907, pp. 5-16; Yves Henry, Caoutchouc, Afr. Occid. 
E p 203 (branch and fruit); Ann. Mus. Col. am 
1909, p. 400, f. 5 (plantation); eps Col. Rep. Misc. 
No. 66, 1910, t. 21; Bull. Agric. Con ue . 1910, t. 82, t. 83 
( (Beplanting Coquilhatville Bormen, p years); Engl. and Drude, 
. Erde, ix. p. 637, £ 548; Christy, African Rubber Industry, 
Fine (habit, trees G} years 0 and numerous illustra- 
tions throughout the work, showing habit, seedlings, pods, seeds, 
and tapping. 
Vernac. names.—Ofruntum, Funtum (Gold Coast, Johnson, 
Dudgeon, Chipp); Etfunmundone, Puni (Gold Sa Chipp); Ire, 
€ i I eri 
Poyadua, etc. (F.W. Africa, Chevalier); Eté (Bulu, Cameroons, 
tes).— West African Tree Rubber, Lagos Silk Rubber, Female 
Faites 
Found throughout West Tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to 
the Cameroons, “extending to the Congo region, and B.E. Africa. 
The most important source of rubber indigenous to West Africa, 
including ‘‘ Lump ” rubber from Lagos, Old Calabar, Benin, 
Cape Coast Castle, Liberia, etc., * Lagos Biscuit” and í : * Lagos 
Strip" ra in Liverpool from ‘ Lagos Lump,” “‘ Manoh 
