354 Otto Stapf: Plantae novae ex Liberia enascentes modo secundum. 
(4—5 in. across) of umbel-like cymes of 5—9 flowers each; tube of the 
receptable about !/, in. long; calyx lobes unequal, rounded, */24—*/16 in. 
long, !/,—1/, in. broad; petals falling of together in a cap when the 
flower opens. 
Liberia: Kakatown, Whyte! 
Vogels specimen from Grand Basa, mentioned in Flora Nigritiana as 
Syzygium owariense Benth., also seems to belong rather to this species 
than to Syzygium owariense Benth. (— Eugenia owariensis Beauv.). S. Row- 
landi also occurs in Lagos. 
5. Polyadoa (?) Simii Stapf, 1. c., p. 624. /Apocynaceae.] 
A glabrous shrub with slender branches; leaves elliptie, shortly 
acuminate, sub-obtuse at the base, 4—5 in. by 2—2?/, in., coriaceous, 
pale green, with 7—8 slender oblique side-nerves and faint loose veins 
and a petiole !/, in. long; flowers in terminal and axillary subsessile 
small dense clusters, shortly pedicelled; sepals coriaceous with mem: 
branous tips, coated with resin within, rounded, very small; corolla over 
!/, in. long, tube somewhat longer than the narrow lobes; anthers just 
above the middle of the tube; ovary 2-carpellary glabrous with 4 ovules 
in two rows in each carpel; fruit, according to a drawing by Sim, con- 
sisting of 2 divaricate oblong yellow follicles produced into long slender 
beaks, 2!/, by j, in. 
Liberia: Sino District, Sim, 16! : 
Sim states that it yields good rubber. It hat quite the habitus of a 
Polyadoa, but differs in the small number of ovules from the other species 
of that genus. As, moreover, the fruit of Polyadoa is unknown, the 
generic position of the plant is somewhat doubtful. No species of Polya- 
doa and their immediate allies (Pleiocarpa and Hunteria) are known to 
yield rubber. 
6. Whitfieldia colorata C. B. Clarke apud Stapf, Le, p. 640. /Acan- 
thaceae.] 
A glabrous shrub with terminal dense short very handsome brilliantly 
coloured panicles (bracteoles ?/, in. long, brick red; corolla 1 in. long, 
paler with purple tips). | 
Liberia: Kakatown, Whyte! 
1. Whitfieldia latiflos C. B. Clarke apud Stapf, l. c., p. 640. [Acan- 
thaceae. ] 
A glabrous shrub with terminal dense spikelike one-sided panicles 
of red (or purple?) flowers. 
Liberia: Kakatown, Whyte! 
8. Ficus Whytei Stapf, 1. c., p. 650. /Urticaceae.] 
A glabrous large forest tree with reddish branchlets, almost subulate 
terminal buds (?/, in. long), very large ovate or elliptic-oblong shortly 
acuminate leaves with asymmetrically cordate bases (12—16 in. by 
51/—' | in.) with short stout petioles, about 13 rather spreading side 
nerves and a rather conspicuous reticulation similar to that of F. Vogelii) 
and paired receptacles. 
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