-♦) The Liberian Flora 



centred, and with dry red (?) berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and 

 Sino Basin, JlV/ftL'l; Cape Vulmas, Sc//or//k/// I— -Called "Bush 

 Apple " in Sierra I.eone. 

 Bertiera glabrata, K. Sduiin. : a glabrous large-leaved climbing 

 shrub with terminal spike-like pendulous panicles of reflexed 

 tubular flowers, | in. long ; Kakatown and Sino Basin, Whyte ! 

 B. africana, Rich. : a softly hairy shrub or tree with shortly petioled 

 ovate-oblong acute membranous leaves, 6 — -8 in. by 2 — ■■^\ in., 

 slender spike-like flexuous panicles (6 in. long) of white (?) 

 flowers, \ in. long, and many-seeded berries, 1 in. across ; 

 Kakatown, M'liytc ! 

 *Webera gracilis, Stapf: a shrub with slender branches, thin acu- 

 minate leaves, 2% — 4 in. by i^ — if in., and corymbs of numerous 

 white (?) flowers, almost \ in. long ; Kakatown, Sino Basin, 

 ]Vhytc\ 

 Randia acuminata, Boitli. : a glabrous shrub or small tree with slender 

 branches, papery lanceolate or obovate-lanceolote leaves, 4 — 12 

 in. by 2 — 4 in., and small axillary more or less pendulous 

 panicles of deep pink or crimson flowers, not quite i in. long, 

 and large ovoid channelled berries (up to 4 in. long) ; Kakatown 

 and Sino l^asin, ]Vhyte\ 

 R. maculata, DC. : an elegant little tree with glossy coriaceous 

 leaves and fragrant slender tubular white flowers, over 6 in. 

 long, tube ^ in. wide, throat funnel-shaped, to | in. across ; 

 Kakatown, IVhytc ! 

 R. malleifiora, Hiern : a shrub or small tree with large very fragrant 

 brownish white flowers (tube velvety, up to 5 in long, and almost 

 \ in. wide, throat 2 — 3 in. wide, bell-shaped), the style club- 

 shaped and long exserted ; Kakatown, Whylc ! ; 70 miles up 

 the St. Paul's River, Reynolds \\ Sino Basin, \Vhytc\ 

 Amaralia calycina, A'. Schnm. : a climbing shrub with papery lanceo- 

 late to elliptic leaves, and axillar}- usually paired violet bell- 

 shaped flowers, ih in. long and with large foliaceous sepals; 

 Monrovia and Sino Basin, JP'hytel 

 Oxyanthus formosus, Hoo/c. f. : a glabrous weak shrub with oblong 

 papery leaves, 8 — 11 in., by 3 — 4 in., and racemes or panicles 

 of very long and slender white flowers (corolla tube over 6 in. 

 long and .1 in. in diameter) ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 27 ! 

 *0. tenuis, Stapf: similar to the preceding species, but with few- 



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