Liberia ^♦- 



Anthostema senee^alense, fuss. : a tree with coriaceous leaves and dense 

 a.\illar\- sessile clusters of small asymmetrical cyathia ; Grand 

 Basa, Diiiklage, 1769! 



*Cleistanthus liberica, N. E. Broivu : a monoecious shrub with 

 coriaceous leaves, ending in a long linear point and incon- 

 spicuous fascicled male flowers in small rust)- down}' racemes ; 

 Sino Basin, JJV/j'/rl 



Amanoa bracteosa, Planch. : a monoecious small tree with coriaceous 

 leaves and rigid bracteate dense spikes of clusters of 7 — 9 

 flowers, of which the central is female, the others male, all with 

 petaloid greenish sepals; Monrovia, WJiytc\ 



A. strobilacea, Miill.-Arg. : a tree similar to the preceding, but with 

 the flowers in axillary or terminal sessile heads of the size o^ 

 a pea or small cherry ; Sino Basin, WJiyte ! 



Phyllanthus floribundus, jMillL-Arg. : a monoecious (like all the 

 following species of that genus) shrub with slender more or 

 less spinous branches, distichous leaves and copious fascicled 

 extremely delicate racemes of minute greenish flowers ; Monrovia, 

 JF/n'/e ! 



*P. profusus, N. E. Broivn : similar to the preceding, but with 

 stouter more rigid racemes of copious fascicles of greyish 

 flowers ; Sino Basin and Kakatown, Ji7/;'h' ! 



P. capillaris, ScJuim. and Thonn. : a spreading or trailing shrub with 

 very small elliptic leaves and solitary very small flowers, 

 pendulous on long capillary pedicels; Sino River, W/iytel 



P. niruroides, Miill.-Arg.: an undershrub with ver)- small oblong 

 leaves and very shortly pedicelled minute white flowers, 

 all on one side of the branch ; Monrovia and Sino River, 

 WhYtc\ 



Jatropha curcas, L. : a monoecious shrub or tree with more or less 

 lobed leaves and yellowish green flowers in small axillary 

 inflorescences, and with 3-valved capsules ; a native of Tropical 

 America, cultivated at Cape Palmas, according to Vogel. — The 

 seeds, resembling those of Riciuus, but larger, contain an oil 

 which is a strong purgative and emetic (hence the name of 

 the seed " Physic-nut ") ; it may be also used for lighting and 

 lubricating purposes. 



*Croton dispar, N. E. Broivn : a moncecious tree with ovate long 

 petioled leaves and long terminal slender minutely scaly 



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