Liberia ^ 



glabrous leaves, oblique lanceolate leaflets up to 6 in. by 2h in., 

 and sparingly branched rusty hairy panicles of involucrate flowers 

 with a large 2-lobed standard, whilst the other petals resemble 

 the small linear sepals, the involucre formed of 2 bracteoles, 

 I in. long; Sino Basin, JV/^ytcl 



M. palisoti, Bcnth. : similar to the preceding species, but with 4 — 8- 

 foliolate leaves, silvery silk}^ beneath, and smaller flowers, the 

 bracts of the involucre \ — \ in. long; Kakatown, ]Vhytc\ 



*Loesenera kalantha, Harms : a tall shrub with coriaceous glabrous 

 6~8-foliolate leaves, terminal racemes of pinkish flowers with 

 4 sepals and 3 larger (A in. long) and 2 very small petals, and 

 brown woody pods up to 6 in. by 3 in. ; in moist bush, Grand 

 Basa, Dinklage, 1805 ! 



Berlinia acuminata, //c't?^. /i : a tree with large 6 — 12-foliolate coria- 

 ceous leaves, terminal racemes or corymbs of white flowers with 

 the dorsal petal long-clawed, and much larger (li— 3 in.) than 

 the others, the buds enclosed in a pair of large bracteoles, and 

 with flat 'pods, |— i ft. by 2 in.; Monrovia, WJiyte\\ Grand 

 Basa, Ansel I \ 



*Didelotia engleri, Dink/, and Haniis. : a shrub or small tree with 

 10 — 14-foliolate coriaceous leaves, 3 in. long, and narrow droop- 

 ing panicles (up to 10, in. long) of small crimson apetalous 

 flowers ; in humid woods of the littoral, Fishtown, Dinklagc, 2033 ! 



*Copaifera dinklagei, Harms. : a glabrous shrub with simple long- 

 acuminate leaves and panicled spikes of small whitish apetalous 

 flowers with 4 sepals and 8 stamens ; banks of the Bis5 River 

 near Grand Basa, Dinklage, 1695 ! — A species allied to C. 

 dinklagei furnishes the Sierra Leone " copal," an elastic white 

 gum, much used in the manufacture of varnishes. 



Cynometra afzelii, Oliv. : a shrub with slender branches and 2 — 4- 

 foHolate leaves (the lower pair of leaflets being much smaller 

 than the upper, if at all present) and with small racemes of 

 white flowers supported by petaloid white bracteoles, ^— i in. 

 long; Monrovia, Whyte\ 



*Monopetalanthus pteridophyllum. Harms. : a tree with coriaceous 

 leaves (I ft. long) of 17 — 20 pairs of asymmetric rectangular 

 leaflets, up to i in. long, and short axillary racemes of white 

 monopetalous flowers, ^ in. long ; banks of St. John's River 

 near Grand Basa, Dink/age, 1700! 



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