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Broter. x. (1892) 141 ; Ande in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxx. (1894), 90 
and in arep Bull., 1895, 4 cum icone* ; K. S ichu um. in Notizbl. 
ot. . und Mus. ciis t3 217-921 eum icone*; Warb. in 
Er f. trop. Landwirthsch. (Tropenpfl.) i. 99-103, cum icone* 
and Kautschukpfl. 110; Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Col. i. 12-19, 41-47, 
figs. 1,2 and 14; Preuss in Tropenpfl. iii. 65-71 ; Jumelle, Les Plantes 
a Caoutchouc, 68-73, fig. 10* ; Preuss in Notizbl. ot. Gart. und 
Mus. Berl. ii. 353-360, t. ii. ; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. 326-330, 
et West-Afr. Kautschuk Exped. 41, 158, 160, 194, 309. 206, 235, 
236, 307, fig. on p. 238 ; De Wildeman in Rev. Cult. Col. vii. 633, 
634, 747. K. Zenkeri, K. Schum. 1. c. iii. 81. K. Gilletii, De 
Wildeman, 1. c. 744 
. WEST TROPICAL AFRICA. Sierra Leone, without precise 
pavers Scott Elliot! Haydon (follicles and seeds)! near Kukuna 
n the Scarcies River, Scott Elliot, 4506 ! (fruit-bearing branch, 
with almost bright green and quite p leaves); Bagroo River, 
n ! Ba i s River, Dinklage, 835! 
Sinó Basin, Whyte! Ivory Coast, Boboi; Toll y, 174! 1691! Gold 
Coast, Sehwhi and Wam istrict, Armitage! (barren fap reve 
Koforidua, pre rere 494! E. Akim, Johnson, 692 flower- 
ing branches)  Prah River, Johnson, 935! Togo lar sd. Amed- 
johve Mountain, Schlechter, 12 919. pepsin Baumann, 555! 
Dahomey, Adja Were, accordi ing to Hua. Low igeria, Bonny, 
Kulbreyer, 82! (detached Veiis a “follicles and seeds; the 
follicles are rather less coriaceous than in the other er siren 
Opobo, Holland, 157 ! Adiabo, Holland, $ 224! between Ekuke and 
ae together with F. elastica, according to Holland. Cross 
Rive er, tu, Holland, 5! Ekure, Holland, 160! Cameroons, 
virgin ful near Victoria, Pi dde 1382 ! Bipinde, Buli, Zenker, 
2280! 2534! Gaboon, Libreville, Klaine, 662! Fernando Po, 
Mann ! Lower Congo, Kisantu, Gillet ! 
Flowers were polloried: in apone in the Cameroons, in 
January in Sierra Leone, in January and February in Gaboon, 
early in April (i. a very E state) on the — River. The 
fruits of the PEIRA year seem to ripen at about the same tim 
This tree appears to be common in the hill ges of the Pee 
Mts. and in the Boém Country, Togoland Pahlechion d in Mie coast 
region a. the Eur ape (Dr. Preu uss), and in the of the 
ungo as far the Bakossi Mts is. (Schlechter), and on the 
slopes of the hills a grecum (Chalot in Le Jardin, xi., 199). 
Lecomte claims to have discovered a plant identical with T afri- 
cana of Libreville, still farther south, at Kakamoeka, on the 
Kouila River; but he remarks that the fruits are rather longer 
and the stamens somewhat differently shaped. 
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however, in my opinion, no difference whatever in these res joéputta! 
K. Gilletii, on Ag éthet hand, was distinguished from F. F. africana 
on account of the flowers bein ing smaller; but here again, I find 
that the size of the corollas comes well within the range of 
variation exhibited by the flowers of F. africana. There is also 
* Deseriptione et figuris fructuum exceptis. 
