Liberia ^ 



SOLANACE^: 



Solanum anomalum, ScJuiin. and TJionu. : a coarse tomentose herb 

 with prickly stems and leaves, bluish white nodding flowers and 

 red erect berries ; Kakatown, ]\'/iytc ! ; Grand Basa, Vo^^el, 83 ! ; 

 Grant's Farm b\- the Sino River, ]V/iyte\; Cape Palmas, 



Voo-C/. 13! 



S. aculeatissimum, /(uq. : similar to the preceding but less coarse, 

 glabrous or more or less finel)' setose, prickly all over, including 

 the flowers, with nodding scarlet berries, i in. across ; Kakatown, 

 ]]'/iyh-\ 



Capsicum sp. : " Various sorts of Capsicum " are cultivated at Grand 

 Basa according to Vogel. They belong evidently to C.fnitcsceiis, 

 L., an originally American species, which is cultivated in 

 numerous varieties throughout the tropics. The red or yellow 

 fruits, " Chillies," yield the well-known " Cayenne Pepper." 



SCROPHULARIACE^: 



Scoparia dulcis, L. : a much-branched somewhat stiff weed, with 

 lanceolate dentate leaves in whorls of 3 and very sniall white 

 4-fid flowers solitary or in pairs and on capillary pedicels ; 

 Kakatown, W/iytcl; Grand Basa, J'ogc/, 47! 



Lindernia diffusa, Wettst. : a small creeping marsh herb with opposite 

 roundish leaves and small axillary white 2-lipped flowers ; 

 Kakatown, JV/rj'U' ! 



Alectra communis, }Iciiisl. : a species which has long been confused 

 with ^l. DiclaDipyroides, Benth., from which it differs in having 

 distinctly stalked spreading leaves and bracts longer than the 

 flowers. A coarse herb parasitic on the roots of other plants. 

 Leaves small, opposite or alternate in the inflorescence ; 

 flowers small in crowded spikes ; corolla not much longer 

 than the calyx, yellow, veined with red or brown, shri\elling 

 and twisting soon after expansion and persistent around the 

 ripe seed-vessel ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



BIGNONIACE^ 



Newbouldia laevis, Seem. : a pinnate-leaved shrub or tree with dense 

 short panicles of showy pink flowers resembling a Foxglove, 



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