Liberia <«- 



corymbs of small clusters of white flowers and whitish berries, the 

 cf)rymbs and all young parts rusty hairy ; Kakatown, U7/j'h'\ 



Grumilea micrantha, Hicni : a glabrous shrub with light green foliage 

 and slender drooping panicles of distinctly pedicelled very small 

 white flowers, ^ — ^- in. long ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, Whytc ! 



Chasalia laxiflora, P^ciith : a glabrous climbing shrub with papery long 

 acuminate leaves and terminal cor\'mbs of waxy tubular orange 

 and crimson flowers, about h in. long; Monrovia, ffV/rA'!; 

 Grand Basa, A;isi'//l; Sino Basin, /fVy/t'! 



Cephselis peduncularis, S<i//s/>. : a glabrous shrub or undcrshrub with 

 prostrate stems, papery many-nerved leaves, 3 — 9 in. by i^ — 3^ 

 in., compact involucrate long-pedunclcd heads of small white 

 flowers and yellow berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino 

 l^asin, [fV/r/c!; Cape Palmas, J'^'a'V'/, 9! 40! 62! 



Lasianthus batangensis, var. longipetiolata, A'. Sc/niin. : a shrub with 

 quadrangular branches and axillary solitar)' small sessile flowers 

 and blue (?) berries; in bush, Fishtown, Dihklagr, 1750. 



Diodia breviseta, Bcuth. : a rambling shrub with quadrangular 

 branches, rough membranous very obliquely nerved leaves and 

 sessile axillary clusters of white flowers (| in. long) and with 

 4 sepals; Monrovia, Whyte\\ Grand Basa, ]^ogc!, 84! 



D. vaginalis, BciitJi. : a succulent trailing or rambling herb with 

 crowded narrow acute leaves and axillary white flowers (i in. 

 long) with 6 sepals and exsertcd from the cuff- like fusions of 

 the leaf-bases and stipules ; Grand l^asa, ]'ogLi, 68 ! 



D. rubricosa, Hiern : a trailing herb with rough elliptic fleshy 

 coriaceous leaves and axillary white flowers, similar to those of 

 the preceding species, but smaller and with 2 sepals ; Sino 

 Basin, Whytc ! 



Spermacoce globosa, Schiini. and Thonn, : a glabrous herb or shrublet 

 with lanceolate linear-oblong membranous leaves and solitary 

 superimposed globose compact heads of minute white flowers ; 

 common in sandy plains, Monrovia and Kakatown, \\'liytc\\ 

 Grand Basa, I'ogd, 37!; Sino Basin, ]VJiyte\ 



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Ageratum conyzoides, L. : a herbaceous weed with opposite ovate 

 crenate leaves and dense terminal corymbs of violet flower- 



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