320 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



SOME PLANTS FEOM LIBEEIA. 

 Collected by Mr. E. H. Bunting. 



The Department of Botany of the British Museum has re- 

 cently received a small collection from the Gola Forest, Liberia, 

 made by Mr. E. H. Bunting, which has been worked out by the 

 officers of the Department. Mr. Bunting recently left the service 

 of the Department to take up an appointment under the Liberian 

 Eubber Corporation, for the purpose of exploration work in the 

 forests of Liberia. He has sent a small but interesting collection, 

 and it is hoped that he may find further opportunity for adding 

 to our knowledge of the botany of the country. In his covering 

 letter Mr. Bunting comments on the many interesting physio- 

 logical and biological features presented by the forest flora. "The 

 majority of plants have their youngest leaves coloured, their tints 

 ranging from light yellow to purple ; . . . some of the lianes bear 

 shoots of very great length before leaves occur, and these shoots 

 are also not green." He notes that many of the smaller trees are 

 cauliflorous, and that hygrophytic types of foliage abound, " as 

 might be expected in a country the average annual rainfall of 

 which is said to be 153 inches," and epiphytes of all kinds occur 

 in large quantity. 



The collection includes the following species, some of which 

 constitute new records for Liberia (these are indicated by an 

 asterisk). 



POLYPETAL^. 



Determined by Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



Monodora tenuifolia Benth. Distrib. Upper Guinea. 

 Glyphaa grewioides Hook. fil. Distrib. Upper and Lower 

 Guinea, Uganda. 



■■'Hugonia 2^lcitysepala Welwitsch. Distrib. Angola, Cameroons, 

 Uganda, Sierra Leone, Togoland. 



■•'Baphia leptobotrys Harms. Distrib. Cameroon^. 

 Dichrostachys platycarpa Welwitsch. Distrib. Angola. 



*Dissotis decumbens Hook. fil. Distrib. Upper and Lower 

 Guinea. 



■•'Calvoa sessiliflora Cogn. Distrib. Hitherto only known from 

 the Congo Eegion. 



Memecylon golaense, sp. nov. Arbor ^laberrima. Eami 

 cortice griseo vel cinereo tecti teretes. Eamuli plus minus angu- 

 lati. Folia parviuscula chartacea elliptica vel ovalia vel ovata 

 basi cuneata apice in acumen attenuata apice ipso obtusa 3-nervia 

 jugo laterali subvalido paullo supra laminae basin abeunte et 

 margin! subparallelo inter nervos transversales baud curvato nervis 

 transversalibus numerosis tenuibus subparallelis costae subrectan- 

 gulariter impositis nervis supra impressis subtus prominentibus 

 venis supra vix conspicuis subtus prominulis. Flores parviusci;li 

 in foliorum axillis in cymas minimas plerumque 3-floras rarius 

 2-1-fioras dispositi. Cymae pedunculatge pedunculis tenuibus. 



