Liberia <^ 



" Congo Pea " of Englisli colonists. The i^reen pods and seeds 

 are used as a vegetable, the mature seeds as a kind of pulse. 



Rhynchosia calycina, Gjiill. and Perr. : an ornamental climber with 

 3-foliolate leaves, dense racemes of cream-coloured papilionaceous 

 flowers, I in. long, with a large velvety calyx, the corollas 

 turning orange or red when dry, and with grey velvety pods, 

 h in. long and containing i — 2 shining bluish black seeds ; 

 Kakatown and Sino Basin, W/iytc ! 



Eriosema parviflorum, E. Mey. : a low softly hairy shrub with petioled 

 3-foliolate leaves, dense long-peduncled racemes of reddish 

 papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, and flat shaggy pods, \ in. 

 by \ in. ; Grand Basa, ]'ogel\ ; Ansel/ \ 



E. glomeratum, Hook. f. : an erect low softly hairy shrub with almost 

 sessile 3-foliolate leaves, dense axillary subsessile heads of yellow 

 papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, and shaggy pods, \ in. by \ in. ; 

 Monrovia, ]Vhytc\\ Sino Basin, ]V/iytc\\ Cape Pal mas, .J //.5v//! ; 

 ] ^ogcl, 60 ! 



Dalbergia saxatilis. Hook. f. : a straggling or climbing glabrous shrub, 

 often of considerable size, with pinnate 9 — ii-foliolate leaves, 

 oblong very obtuse leaflets, |^2 in. by \ — i in., axillary and 

 terminal, sometimes large, panicles of white or rose-coloured 

 flowers, \ in. long, and i -seeded thin glabrous indehiscent pods, 

 up to over 3 in. by almost i in. ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and 

 Sino Basin, WJiytc\ ; Cape Palmas, Anscll\ 



*D. dinklagei, Havjiis. : a densely branched shrub, similar to the 

 preceding, but with smaller leaflets (the longest \\ in. by \ in.), 

 very short dense axillary and terminal panicles and firmer rusty 

 downy pods ; in the bush of the littoral, Grand Basa, Dinklage, 

 1724, 1766 ! 



D. ecastaphyllum, Taitb. : a prostrate shrub with ascending stems (up 

 to 20 ft. high), usually simple leaves, lA — 6 in. by i — 4 in., dense 

 short axillary panicles of white papilionaceous flowers, | in. long, 

 and flat indehiscent pods of the size of a halfpenny ; very 

 common in the bush of the savannahs of the littoral. Grand 

 Basa, J'ogt'/, 52 ! ; Diuklagc, 1986 ! ; and in a peculiar form (var. 

 trifoliata, Stapfj, distinguished by very large oblong leaves or 

 (in trifoliolate leaves) terminal leaflets, in the Sino basin, Whyte ! 

 I would refer here to D. melanoxylon, (jiiill. and Pcrr. (Plate 

 141), a small much-branched glabrous tree with a trunk up to 



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