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material. Dr.:Stapf who is engaged in the elaboration of the 
Apocynaceae for the Flora of Tropical Africa, has therefore pre- 
pared a more complete description from the fuller material now 
availa ble. 
Kickxia africana, Benth. in Hook. Ic. plant. t, 1976. dpt 
large trlsbfous tree, 50-60 feet high with terete branchlets 
which turn black in drying. Leaves 4-9 in. sone 15-3 in. bro: 
and m 
amana iarr being overtopped by a branch from the axil 
of one of the uppermost leaves; peduncle short, to 3 lin. long ; 
in. | 
1i lin. long, 9-partite, segments ovate, with several glands at the 
rolla salver-shaped, Im tube fleshy, constricted at or 
just balan the middle, 3 lin. long; lobes 5-6 lin. long, oblong, 
height. Ovary of 2 free minutely hairy carpels; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate, slightly ieved. "oontrioted into a broad, conical 
apex ; bes pendulous, numerous in each cell. Follicles about 
4-6 i Spreading, thick, spindle-shaped, with two sharp 
longitudinal ridges, w woody. “Seeds 6-7 lin. Miis taa 
compre , With a long basal awn Saeed towards the 
base of the folliele), and a fine point on the other 
t the e, otherwise covered with long scent silky hairs; 
, 
cotyledons contortuplicate and much longer than the superior 
di 
The laticiferous vessels are found in great numbers in the inner 
within a zone of hardened tissue and accompanied by cells 
oe crystals. 
In September last Kew received heat Captain Denton, C.M.G., 
two pieces of the trunk of the Lagos rubber tree each about 
` 10 inches to a foot in diameter, scored with the marks of the 
rubber under rers. These will be placed in the Kew museums. 
The re sent as the “female” rubber tree,a name we learn 
that is applied ub to the Kickxia africana, Benth. It is thus 
distinguis rom Holarrhena africana, quite a different -— 
. which is fancifully called the “male” rubber tree. The latter 
a Rubiaceous plant not known to yield any rubber. 
