Liberia <4- 



flowered cymes and somewhat smaller and still slenderer flowers ; 

 Sine Basin, Whyte ! 



Tricalysia coriacea, Hiem : a shrub with coriaceous elliptic or oblong 

 leaves, sessile axillary clusters of white inside woolly flowers, 

 ^ in. long, and i — 3-seeded berries ; common near Grand Basa, 

 Vogel, 112! 



T. biafrana, Hiem : a small glabrous tree with ovate-lanceolate to 

 oblong leaves, 4 — 6 in. by i^ — 2 in., and dense subsessile axillary 

 clusters of white flowers, ^ in. long, a villous corolla-mouth and 

 exsertcd stamens; Kakatown, JlV^j'tel 



Vanguiera euonymoides, ScJiwcinf. ex Hiem [J) : a shrub or small tree 

 with very slender branches, papery leaves, ih — 2 in. by | — i in., 

 and small greenish flowers, borne on pedicels 5 in. long and 

 having their corolla lobes tightly reflexed ; in bush. Grand Basa, 

 Dinklage, 2035 ! — I give here the Berlin determination, but 

 am rather doubtful as to its correctness. 



Cuviera acutiflora, DC. : a shrub with stout coriaceous oblong leaves 

 and greenish white flowers scarcely i in. long in numerous loose 

 panicles, distinguished by the great similarity of the linear- 

 lanceolate sepals and bracts, | — ^ in. long ; Monrovia, ]J7/j'fe\ ; 

 Grand Basa, Voge/, 72 ! 82 ! 



Craterispermum laurinum, BciitJi. : a glabrous shrub or tree with 

 yellowish green coriaceous leaves and peduncled axillary clusters 

 of funnel-shaped white flowers, ^ in long ; Monrovia and Kaka- 

 town, ]l'/iyte !~-The bark yields a yellow dye. 



Ixora radiata, Hiem : a glabrous large shrub with sessile lanceolate 

 to elliptic coriaceous leaves and handsome bunches of slender 

 rose-coloured or white flowers, the tube up to 2iin., the lobes 

 j in. long; Liberia, Mil/en, 196! 



I. laxiflora, Sv/. -. a glabrous shrub or small tree with lanceolate or 

 oblong coriaceous shortly petioled leaves, lax often nodding 

 corymbs of slender fragrant white rose-tipped flowers, over i in. 

 long, and red berries; Monrovia, W/iytel; Grand Basa, ]\>gel, 

 Tl ! ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 6 ! 61 ! ; Ansell\ ; ScJioenlein ; Sino 

 Basin, Whyte ! 



*I. congesta, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with long acuminate leaves, 

 I ft. by 2 — 4 in., and very dense long- peduncled coiymbs of 

 slender flowers, in bud up to i in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



*I. atrata, Stapf: a shrub with slender divaricate branches, con- 



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