-^ The Liberian Flora 



racemes up to i ft. long and orange-coloured smooth capsules, 

 over I in. across, breaking up into 3 woody valves ; Monrovia 

 and Kakatown, ]V/ifte ! — x\lso in Sierra Leone. 



*Deinbollia polypus, Stapf: a glabrous tree {}) or shrub with pinnate 

 shining leaves (the leaflets lanceolate, up to 8 in. by 2\ in.), 

 stiff sparingly branched panicles of almost sessile fascicles of 

 whitish flowers, scarcely i in. long ; Sino Kasin, ]Vhytc\ 



*D. grandifolia, Hook. f. : a small tree similar to the preceding species 

 but with the largest leaflets 10 in. by 4 in., and larger, more 

 branched panicles up to i ft. long ; Kakatown, Whyte ! ; Cape 

 Palmas, V^ogel, 66 ! 



Dodongea viscosa, L. : a small shrub or tree with viscid branchlets, 

 lanceolate thinly coriaceous leaves, small apetalous flowers in 

 terminal panicles, and capsules with 3 pink membranous wrings ; 

 Monrovia, JlV/ytel^The crushed branches, saturated with their 

 resin, serve in some parts of Africa as torches. According to 

 Moloney the wood is also used for engraving and in turnery, 



MELIANTHACE.^ 



*Bersama leiostegia, Stdpf: a glabrous shrub or tree (?) with pinnate 

 13 — 17-foIiolate leaves, acuminate lanceolate stipules (up to 

 over I in. long and glabrous with the exception of the ciliolate 

 margins) and rigid racemes of greyish tomentose flowers, over 

 J in. long ; Sino Basin, W/iytc ! 



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Trichoscypha liberica, E)iiiL ; a tall shrub with densely hairy dark 

 brown j'oung twigs, pinnate 9-foliolate shining leaves, over i ft. 

 long and ver}' hairy axillary panicles (5 — 6 in. long) of minute 

 flowers ; near Monrovia, Naiii/iaiin. 



Odina acida, JVcjlp. : a small deciduous glabrous tree with pinnate 

 leaves, 7— ii oblique leaflets and short terminal panicles of 

 clustered minute flowers ; Grand Basa, Vog-t'/, 102 ! — The 

 powdered bark is, with some other substances, made into a 

 paint for the face. 



Spondias lutea, Z. : a tall glabrous tree with pinnate leaves, J — i^^ 

 ft. long, 7 — 19 more or less opposite oblique leaflets, and 

 panicles of small flowers and yellow plum-like fruits ; Grand 



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