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feet high; leaves peltate, elegant. 6. Fruit, in large panicle, of a 

 small tree with pinnate leaves, seldom more than eight to ten feet high. 

 7. Forest grapes, bunch weighing 8 lbs., probably some Cissus. 8. 

 Fruit, flowers, and leaves of a forest tree. 9. Spathe, fruit, small leaf, 

 and portion of flower-stem of a large aquatic Aroideous plant. 10. 

 Pandanus Candelabrum, fruit and leaves. 11. Cocculus macrantkus, fruit. 

 12. Cucurbitaceous fruit, globular, with its singular large cruciform 

 stigma attached. 13. Small green-and-white spotted fruit from a small 

 tree with large ovate leaves. 



In bottles, not numbered. — Flowers and leaves of the Cola-tree. 

 Flowers of a large scarlet Spathodea, and miscellaneous small fruits. 



In a dried state. 



with 



attached. Ditto of Napoleona Vogelii, Amornum Danielli. Woods of 

 forest climbers. Ditto of Pandanus Candelabrum. Fruit of Kigelia 

 sp. Ligneous seed-pods of a Leguminous plant, seeds edible, called 

 " Opochala." Bark of the " Red-water-tree," used medicinally. 



Dried specimens for Herbaria. — Remainder of specimens collected at 

 Sierra Leone, about 300 species. From Fernando Po, only those suf- 

 ficiently dry for packing, about 100 Phsenogamous plants, a few Mosses 

 and Fungi, and 40 Ferns. 



Seeds. — From thirty to forty packets, including seeds of Pandanus 

 Candelabrum. 



Plants to be forwarded to Kew from Mr. Consul Hutchinson (glazed 

 case). — Panax sp., producing large corymbs of scarlet flowers. Amo- 

 rnum Melagueta (two), roots obtained from a native village; the fruit, 

 forwarded in spirit, was obtained from the plant sent. Orchidacece, 

 one terrestrial species, producing white flowers of a singular shape ; 

 habit of plant resembling the British species Epipactis grandifiora. 

 Leguminous tree of the Minwsa group, which produces the edible nuts 

 called " Opochala ;" seed-pods of this are sent with dried specimens. 

 Tamiopsis sp., from Oil-Palms. Selaginella sp., like S. umbrosa. 

 Selaginella sp., a small neat species, very distinct from any previously 

 seen under cultivation. 



