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229. Landolphia Senengalensis Kotschy etPeyr. Pl.Tinneanse, 

 31 (1867); Dewèvre Caoutsch. Afr. Monogr. F.andolph. 34; Stapf in FI. 

 Trop. Afr. lY. secl. 1. 36. — Foresls of Albreda, in Lower Niumi district 

 (Leprieur). Dog Island (Leprieur). Kommbo district (Heudelot, n. 29). 

 R. Gambia (Skiies). Common near Kan and Kousann, by Ihe R. Gambia 

 (Perrottet, n. 792). 



var. glabriflora Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Y. 185 (1899). — 

 (Whitfield). 



This species yields no rubber. The name bas been overlooi^ed and 

 omitted from Index Kewensis. 



230. Carpodinus hirsuta Hua ex Chevalier in Bull. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris, Yl. 308 (1900); Chevalier Géogr. Bot. Sénégal et Soudan. 223; 

 Stapf in FI. Trop. Afr. lY. sect. 1. 77. — In Bignonia forests, in the West 

 Fogni district, just within British territory (Chevalier). This is the «Ibo 

 tree >• of Lagos, which is supposed lo yield part of the rubber of the Gold 

 Goast Colony and Lagos. 



231. Holarrhena ovata Cand. 2"«. — F TA. lY. sect. 1. 164 

 (Whilfield; Lester, no. n. ; Ozanne, n. 9). 



232. Alstonia Congensis Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. Yill. 64 (1887); 

 Durand et Schinz Etudes FI. Congo, I. 190 (1896); Stapf in FI. Trop. Afr. 

 lY. sect. I. 121. — Rather common from the river Gambia lo Porluguese 

 Guinea. St. Mary's Island, near Bathurst (Chevaher). Balantacounda in 

 West Fogni district (Chevalier). Engler described the species from barren 

 spécimens, so thaï the basis of the species is uncerlain. Chevalier des- 

 cribes the flowei's as yellowish-brown wilh a penetraling sweetodor; 

 they are out in Senegambia in January and February. 



233. Voacanga africana Slapf in Journ, Linn. Soc. XXX. 87 

 (1. Feby. 1894). — FT A. lY. sect. 1. 158. St. Mary's Island, near Bathurst 

 (Skues). Lower Niumi district, near Albreda (Heudelot, n. 89, in Herb. 

 Mus. Paris). Ail the Senegambian and Sierra Leone spécimens hâve more 

 or less hairy leaves and peduncles; the same is the case with Barter's 

 spécimens from Nupé, and Mann's from Fernando Po. The amount of 

 hairiness varies considerably, and in Skues' spécimen the youngest and 

 smallest leaves are quile glabrous, whilst the iarger lower ones hâve 

 pubescent midribs. The fruit is not known. 



234. Alafia scandens Jacks. Ind. Kew. II. 309(1894): = A.laudol- 

 phioidea Schum. in Engl, und Prantl, Natürlich. Pflanzenfam. lY. abt. 2. 

 p. 165 (1895). — FT A. lY. sect. 1. 197 (WhiKield, 1842). Syn. -- Nerium 

 scandens Schum. et Thonn. (1830). 



235. Baissea multiflora Cand. 2«^. — FT A. lY. sect. 1. 208. 

 R. Gambia (Whilfield, 1842). Albreda in Lower Niumi district (Perrotlet, 

 n. 480). Gunjour in South Kommbo district (Lester, n. 14 S). This climbing 

 shrub yields rubber; and the bark is used for rope. 



236. Strophanthus sarmentosus Cand. — FTA. lY. sect. 1. 

 180; (Perrotlet, Skues, Ingram). Lester's spécimens, cited under Gambia 

 in FTA, were coUecled in French territory. 



