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tabelle iii. ; Reinigen in Tropenpfl. vi. Beih. 2-3, 163-168 ; Zitzow 
Tropenpfl. vi i. 228-250, with fig. on p. 232 ; Stein in Trope npfl. 
viii. 597—611 ; Soskin i in Tropenpfi. x. 32-39; non Benth. 
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA. Liberia, about 40 miles up the 
Sind River, Sim! Gold Coast, Mampong Hills, Johnson, 255! 
Sehwhi ana Wam District, Armitage! (barren branches and a 
branch bearing very young fruits). Ashanti, Kumassi, Cummins, 
217! (flowering branch, flowers young and partly deformed). 
Lagos, Jebu District, Millen, 178! 180! and without precise 
locality, Denton ! (fruits and seeds, also VIT UR branches from 
plants Brown n $ e Trinidad Bot. Garden, raised from those 
ee eds, rt!) Punch! Yoruba, Ibadan, meee / (open 
follicle py els) dense forests between Shagam Iba 
Schlechter, 12319. Lower Nigeria, Old Calabar, Doni delli 
with seeds); between (€— and Abarogba, Holland, 1581! 159! 
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161! 162! (flowering and fruitin he latter 
with remarkably small follicles); between Insofan EY Obeyon, 
Holland, ! meroons, right bank of ngo River, between 
Malende and Nyoke, and between Nyoke and Moyoka, Preuss, 
1381! Mundame, Pre 62! between Kumba Nin 
Mokonje, Preuss, 6! forests on the upper Mungo River as f 
the Bakossi Mts., Schlechter. E meroons, goose in the 
Free State, e Laurent, 3036 ! (leaves) ; Neal Thonner, 
13! Upper Ituri River, Arnold ! Uganda, Mabira Forest, 
Dawe, 1 
The rubber tree observed by Dr. Preuss near Barombi Station 
in the Cameroons Hinterland (Tropenpfi. ii. 206) i is, sige, to 
him; probably also identical with F. elastica. It is the same tree 
ich was mentioned by him in Danckelmann's Mittheilungen 
ae den Deutschen Schutzgebieten, ii. 48, as a species of Ficus. 
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F. elastica flowers in December and January, and matures the 
fruits from the dii vious year DES t the ss eae ime. Vernacular 
name :—Funtum (Johnson); Female Funtum (Armitage). Ire 
(Denton, Millen). Fishunga (Schlechter, Balunds Language). 
Dr. 1 says (Notizbl. Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, II. 355) 
that the“ Lagos specimens which he saw differed from those 
collected by himself in the Cameroons in having smaller and less 
wavy leaves with fewer lateral nerves and narrower fruits. 
confirm this so far as the size of the leaves and the number of 
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n. species is one of the most ESTER sources of West 
African rubber, 
