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Premna hispida, Pn'iith. : a hairy shrub or tree with opposite oblong 

 leaves and short, dense, very hairy corymbs of white flowers with 

 a tube ^ in. long and a 2-lipped limb ; Monrovia, Kakatown, 

 and Sino Basin, ]V//ytc ! 



Clerodendron splendens, G. Don. : a small tree or shrub (sometimes 

 climbing) with opposite oblong leaves and ample handsome 

 corymbs of red flowers with a tube | — i in. long, and 5 lobes 

 \ — \ in. long, and long exserted stamens ; Monrovia and 

 Kakatown, V/hyte ! 



C. scandens, Beauv. : a rambling finel)' downy shrub with opposite 

 cordate-ovate leaves and ample loose panicles of pretty .white 

 flowers (1 in. long) with a red centre and long exserted stamens, 

 and with deep black-green drupes supported by the ultimately 

 red calyx ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, Whyte ! ; 

 Cape Palmas, Vogel, 53 ! 



Vitex grandifolia, Gierke : a small glabrous tree with digitate leaves, 

 cor\'mbs of yellowish flowers up to h in. long, and fruits re- 

 sembling small plums ; Sino Basin, !!7ij'/t ! — The fruits are 

 eatable and, according to Millen, used for making a kind of rum. 



Avicennia africana, Beauj'.: a tree, 12 — 40 ft. high, with lanceolate 

 leaves, tomentose beneath, and small white flowers in globose 

 heads, arranged in panicled spikes ; a frequent constituent of 

 the Mangrove woods, Grand Basa, Voge/ ; Sino River, Whytcl — 

 The compact fibrous wood is said to be very useful for 

 shipbuilding. 



LABIAT/E 



Ocimum viride, Willd.: a strong-scented herb, up to 5 ft. high, with 

 (as in all the following Labiat(£) opposite elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate long petioled leaves and slender often panicled 

 racemes of small white 2-lipped flowers having a calyx with 

 a very broad upper and 4 smaller pungent lateral and lower 

 teeth; Kakatown, Whytc\ — -Known as "Fever Bush" or "Tea 

 Bush " and used in fever to promote perspiration. 



Solenostemon ocymoides, Schiuii. and Thoni. : an annual herb with 

 nettle-like leaves and long spike-like racemes of subverticil- 

 late 2-lipped lilac flowers, I in. long; Grand Basa, ]^ogel, ^\\\ 

 Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



Hyptis brevipes, Poit. : a coarse straggling more or less glabrous 



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