Liberia ^•- 



compressed crustaceous fruits, orbicular in outline, h in. across ; 

 Cape Palmas, Vogel, 46 ! — The seeds arc eaten by the Lagos 

 people. An allied species {A. diniidiata, E. Mey.) yields a hard 

 timber of very equal grain and fine dark grey colour. 



Leptaulos daphiioides, Bcnth. : a glabrous shrub with light green 

 twigs and leaves, the latter thinly coriaceous, dense axillary 

 sessile clusters of fragrant white tubular flowers, ^ in. long, and 

 ovoid nuts. ^ in. long; Kakatown and Sino Basin, JV/ij'U'l 



*Iodes liberica, Sta/^f [syii. I. reticulata, Stapf, not of King): a 

 slender climbing shrub with downy twigs, long extra axillary 

 tendrils, ovate to oblong finely reticulated papery leaves and 

 small panicled tetramerous flowers, yV in. long ; Kakatown and 

 Sino Basin, WJiytc ! 



CELASTRACE.E 



Hippocratea indica, Mllld. : a glabrous climbing shrub with coriaceous 



elliptic leaves, axillary panicles of small flowers and oblong 



fruits (i| in. by \ in.) which break up into two woody navicular 



valves and contain about 2 large winged seeds ; Monrovia, 



Whyte\ 



H. maerophylla, J'ahl. : a climbing shrub with very broad leaves, 5- — 9 

 in. by 2h — 4h in., large extremely lax divaricate panicles and 

 petals, ^ — almost h in. long ; Monrovia, ]Vhyte ! 



Salacia senegalensis, DC. : a small glabrous tree or shrub with warty 

 twigs, coriaceous oblong more or less opposite leaves, axillary 

 fascicles of finely stalked white flowers, ^ in. long, and apple- 

 shaped fruits over i in. indiameter ; Monrovia, IV/iyte ! — Known 

 in Sierra Leone as " Beacon Bush." 



Salacia sp. : a shrub similar to the preceding with small yellowish 

 green petals and red anthers, and with the seeds embedded in 

 a sweet pulp ; common near Grand Basa, Vogel, 66 ! 90 ! — This 

 is named 5. prinoides, DC, in the Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 but it is certainly distinct from that species. The material at 

 hand is not sufificient to describe the species. 



S. debilis, Walp. : a tall glabrous shrub with slender smooth twigs 

 and rough old branches, oblong coriaceous leaves and fascicles of 

 long-stalked (to over i in.) small white flowers, the fascicle 

 axillary or at the ends of short branchlets ; Monrovia, JVhyte ! 



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