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landolphia|lænˈdɒlfɪə|
[mod.L. (A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois Flore d'Oware (1804) I. 55), f. the name of M. Landolphe (1765–1825), commander of the expedition on which the genus was first discovered + -ia1.]
A tropical African climbing plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Apocynaceæ and yielding a latex formerly used as a source of rubber.
1887Curtis's Bot. Mag. CXIII. 6963 The first notice of the Landolphia yielding India-rubber..is by Col. now Sir J. A. Grant, in the appendix to Speke's Journal. 1910Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 4/1 Landolphias, woody climbers,..yield the African rubbers. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) III. 1125/1 Landolphias are an important source of caoutchouc. |