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SOME SUFFRUTESCENT APOCYNACEZ rrom ANGOLA. 
By Orro Srapr, Ph.D., F.B.S. 
(PuaTE 492.) 
ELEVEN years ago the late K. Schumann,* of Berlin, recorded 
the existence in West Africa of so- -called * root rubbers,” that is, 
rhizomes. They were Carpodinus lanceo 
nown from the Lower Congo, and Clitandra ‘Hawiquadiin 
K. Schum., a native of Southern Angol years later, two 
mea was easeeteliny 1 These gaps have now been through 
the exertions of Mr. John Gossweiler, who in 1905 and 1906 
travelled in Southern Angola, and paid special attention to those 
similar arpodinus lanceolata imens collecte 
partly prese 
rated in an extensive and sme collection, communica 
by him to the British Museu They were kindly placed at 
“f 
my disposal by Dr. Rendle, aid form the basis of the present 
aper. 
From the flowers of K. Schumann’s Carpodinus chylorrhiza it 
is now perfectly clear that it is really a Landolphia closely allied 
ae: as I suggested already in Flora of Tropical Africa, 
a ay. 'f. p. 
The generic character of Clitandra Henriquesiana is not 
affected by the discovery of the fruit, but Mr. Go eonangal 3 
i more the 
knead in Clitandra ' and its immediate 
DOLPHIA (§ # Stapf (comb. nov. 
et descr. emend.) ; affinis L. Thollonii Dew. a qua, differt foliis 
magis coriaceis laxius nervosis, sepalis minus latis tenuissime 
* K. Schumann in Tropenpflanzer, ot i. ee he pp. 134, 135, f. 
+ E. Laurent in Belgique Coloniale, décembre, 1903, ex De Wilde- 
man & Gentil, Lianes Caoutchoutiféres es du atti pe ilt. 
+ K. Schum. in H. Baum, Kunene-Sambesi Expedition, p. 336. 
J oURNAL OF Botany.—Vou. 46. [Juty, 1908.] Q 
