-^ The Liberian Flora 



racemes of small whitish male flowers with villous petals ; 

 Monrovia, IVZ/y/e ! 

 Manniophyton africanum, j\Iiill.-Arg.\ a dioecious climbing shrub 

 with long petiolcd cordate or deeply lobed leaves and long 

 slender sparingly branched panicles (bearing more or less 

 sessile male flowers in small clusters and scattered female 

 flowers on longer pedicels), and with large deeply 2 — 3 lobed 

 rusty tomentose capsules; Grand Basa, Diuklage, 1758! 



Crotonogyne caterviflora, .V. E. Bnnvn : a diojcious shrub with papery 

 leaves and compact clusters of minute scaly male flowers on 

 the old branches, or in slender scaly very loose spikes ; Sino 

 River, /r/z/A- ! 



Manihot utilissima, Po/i/. : a montecious shrub with large fascicled 

 roots, digitate leaves, dark green above, very glaucous beneath, 

 and terminal racemes of dull yellow flowers ; the well-known 

 " Bitter Cassava " or " Manioc," a native of America ; cultivated 

 near Grand Basa, Voge/, 63 ! ; Kakatown, IVZ/j'te ! — The roots 

 are in the fresh state poisonous on account of the presence 

 of prussic acid, which has to be removed before they are used 

 for food. 



M. palmata, Miill.-Arg., var. Aipi, PoJil. : very similar to the preceding 

 species but with non-poisonous roots ; the " Sweet Cassava," 

 a native of America, extensively cultivated throughout the 

 tropics ; Grand Basa, according to Vogel. 



Erythrococca aculeata, BctitJi. var. acutissima, A^. E. Broivn : a dioecious 

 thorny shrub with membranous leaves and small clusters of minute 

 male flowers in short delicate racemes and scattered axillary 

 female flowers, and with bright red small capsules ; Sino River, 

 Wliyte ! 



Hasskarlia didymostemon, l^aill. : a dicecious tree, 40 — 80 ft. high, with 

 bright or yellowish green membranous leaves and slender yellow- 

 ish catkins of small male flowers and scattered axillary female 

 flowers ; Monrovia, WJiytc ! 



Cl-aoxylon barteri, Hook f. ; a dicecious shrub or small tree with thin 

 membranous leaves and slender more or less pendulous racemes 

 or clusters of small male flowers and scattered female flowers 

 and with small didymous capsules ; Sino Basin, Wliyte\ 



Alchornea hirtella, Bciith. : a dicecious small shrub with lanceolate to 

 elliptic leaves and numerous very slender flexuous spikes, the 



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