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plantations, and thus make the industry a permanent one. It has 
always been seen that owing to the climbing habit of the Species of 
Landolphia which have hitherto yielded Africa n rubber, it was not — 
practicable to cultivate them in er Desay planeta: as they required the 
support of other plants, and when once tapped m years would 
have to elapse before they would be üt to yield Munda c crop. With the 
Kickxia these practical difficulties disappear. 
e important position now oceupied by the rubber industry in 
British Pomsesioitr i in West Africa may be gathered from the following 
table compiled from the Supplement to the India Rubber Journal of 
August 12, 1895 :— 
Bere of Raw CaovrCHovo received in the UxrrEp. KrNGDoM from 
British West Arrica, including the Gorp Coast and Lagos. 
| 
y. Average price 
Year. | Weight. Value. per Cwt. 
Cwts. £ s. 
1890 - - ^ 33,876 297,453 175 
1891 - - - 48,164 408,646 169 
1892 - - 41,967 357,133 170 
1893 - - - 54,357 452,799 166 
1894 s Š ‘ 47,466 393,990 166 
Total - -| 225,830 1,910,021 169 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
1. Flowering branch ueris size). 2. Bud. 3. Segment of calyx 
with glands at on base 4. Corolla, eut open with style and stigma 
oved. ther, front view. 6. Pistil with disk (d). 7. A pair 
of follicles (natural size). 8. Seed. 9. Transverse section of 
t. testa, a. albumen, c. cavity). Nos. 2 to 6 and 8 and 9 all enlarged. 
CCCCLXXIX.— DIAGNOSES AFRICANA, VIII. 
(Continued from p. 230.) 
ASCLEPIADEJE, 
Auctore, N. E. Brown. 
326. Tacazzia conferta, V. E. Brown ; caule puberulo, foliis oblongis 
vel oblongo-lanceolatis ac acuminatis utrinque cede paniculis meet 
formibus subsessilibus vel breviter pedune latis, floribus ces 
ramulorum umbellatis, sepalis late ovatis Sötis vel subacutis ciliolatis, 
corollæ łobis late oblongis obtusis emarginatis, coronæ lobis filiformibus 
apice tortu osis 
Habitat. as Apreni: Efat, Roth, 407. 
m S petioli erg longi, laminz 23—4 poll. longs, 1-1} poll. latæ. 
Pedicelli 2-3 lin. longi. Sepala 3-1 lin. longa. Corolla lobi 2-24 
Jin. longi. 
