-^ The Liberian Flora 



spicuously veined lanceolate leaves which turn bluish black in 

 drying, and loose trichotomous c}-mcs of white (Y) flowers 

 fcorolla tube 3 lines, lobes 4 lines long) ; Monrovia, ]V/tj'U\ 



CofFea liberica. B/ill ex Hieni : the " Liberia Coffee," similar to the 

 common Coffee, but taller (to over 20 ft. high) with larger 

 leaves and larger black berries of the size of a cherry ; indige- 

 nous around Monrovia according to Vogel, cultivated at Cape 

 Palmas, Vogel, 6^^ ! 



C. nudiflora, Stapf : a deciduous shrub with whitish or greyish 

 branches, axillary solitary or paired white flowers, in the mature 

 bud ^ in. long, produced before the leaves, and red berries ; 

 Monrovia and Sino Basin, WJiyte ! 



C. ligustrifolia, Stapf: an evergreen shrub with divaricate rigid 

 branches, lanceolate leaves, 3^ — 5 in. by \\ — 2 in., and axillary 

 solitary or paired white flowers, in the mature bud I in. long ; 

 Kakatown and Sino Basin, WJiytc ! 



Rutidea parviflora, DC. : a very hairy climber with papery or 

 membranous leaves, clusters of white flowers {\ in. long) usually 

 arranged in slender drooping panicles, and yellow berries ; 

 Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, Whytc ! ; Cape Palmas, 

 Vogel, 26 ! 39 ! 



R. smithii, Hieni : a more or less pubescent shrub with obovate mem- 

 branous leaves, 3 — 4 in. by i^ — 2 in., and pyramidal often dense 

 panicles of whitish flowers with reflexed corolla lobes and ex- 

 serted anthers ; Kakatown, WJiyte ! 



Morinda longiflora, G. Don. : a glabrous rambling or scandent shrub 

 with slender branches, coriaceous lanceolate to elliptic acuminate 

 leaves, freely flowering, with heads of fragrant tubular white 

 flowers, 2 in. long, and deep orange-coloured berry-heads, with 

 the berries connate ; Monrovia, Whytc ! 



Psychotria calva, Hiern : a glabrous shrub with pale green papery 

 lanceolate to oblong leaves, panicles or corymbs of small white 

 flowers, ^ in. long, and red berries ; Sino Basin, JV/iyte ! 



P. bidentata, Hiern : a glabrous shrub with thinly coriaceous lan- 

 ceolate to elliptic leaves, drooping panicles, made up of a few 

 dense clusters of more or less sessile white flowers, I in. long, 

 and with whitish berries ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 40 ! 



P. vogeliana, Bentli. : a shrub with membranous elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute many-nerved leaves, 3 — 8 in. by lA — 3 in., and peduncled 



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