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^ difference in the foliage, and unless the fruits should be found 
afford more tangible characters, we shall have to consider 
K. Gilletii as identical with F. africana. 
The rubber obtained from this species is sticky like bird-lime, 
and therefore worthless 
2. F. PMPHON STE in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. Arbor ad 
30 m. (100 ped.) alta. Truncus erectus, ' cylindrieus ; ; cortex 
extus pallidus, maculatus; ramuli teretes, exsiccando y virus ; 
latex copiosus, coagulan do massam elasticam haud viscosam 
reddens. Folia petiolata ; lamina oblonga vel heoli oMa 
basi attenuata, apice in acumen angustum plerumque enm 
em. (11-25 
ci 
bie 8-9) deter sub margine arc uatim connexis, 
tertiariis venisque inconspicuis; petiolus 4-10 mm. (2-5 lin.) 
longus. Cymae breviter pedunculatae, aee ene congestae, 
ovatae, obtusae vel subacutae ; pedicelli 3-5 mm . (13-21 lin.) longi. 
Flores albi vel flavescentes ; alabastra conica, ori ad 12 mm. 
(6 lin.) longa. Calyx 4-44 mm. (2- -21 lin.) longus ; segmenta latis- 
sima, ovata vel rotundata ; glandulae plerumque 2 cum unoquoque 
segmento. Corollae tubus supra basin sepia 1-8 mm. (34-4 
lin.) longus, glaber; ris oblongi, obtusi, 5-6 m m. (21 -ə lin. ) longi. 
Stamina infra medium tubum inserta ; flamenta. intus minute 
tomentella ; Athare MA apice minute pilosulae. Discus 
9-partitus, segmentis crenatis 8, ovarium paulo superans. Fructus 
folliculi clausi Dies: iss are apice obtusi vel rotundati, sectione 
Preuss in Notizbl. Bo: rt. 8 rlin, ii. 353-360, 1 
pep en in Tropenpfl. iv. UD 141, 143, vi. 308, 423, 636, 
. 93, and in West-Afr tschuk Expe d. 16-19, 96-101, 103, 
113, 113, 151-160, Kei ie 951, fige. on à p. 99 and opp. pp. 164 and 
16; Warburg, Ka hukpfl. 110-112, 153; De Wildeman in 
Rev. Cult. Col. vii. 80, eeu 143—741. K. tee Stapf in Kew 
Bull. 1895, 244 cum i ; K. Sehum. in Notizbl. Bot, Gart. und 
us. Berlin, i 217-221, cum icone*; Warb. in Zeitschr. f. irop. 
Land wirthsch. (Tropenpii) L 99-103, cum icone,” Kautschukpfl. 
110-112, and P "antes à caoutch. 200-205 partly; Lecomte in 
Rev. Cult. Col. i. 12-19, 41-47, fig, 2*; Jumelle, Les Plantes à 
P iei a 68-73, fig. 10* ; Thonner in De Wild. and Durand, 
- Thonner. Congol. xii.; Henriques, Der Kautschuk, 18; 
* Quoad fructus, 
