Preface ^ 



Corporation by Mr. Alexander Whyte, M.A., F.L.S. Mr. 

 Whyte was the first European, or indeed collector of any kind, to 

 botanise in the Liberian hinterland. His work as a collector in 

 African botany may not unfitly be classed with that of Adanson, 

 Hooker, Vogel, Mann, Schweinfurth, and Kirk. After thirteen 

 years' service in the East and Central African protectorates he 

 visited Liberia in 1903-4 to report on the flora of the 

 country for the information of the two companies above men- 

 tioned. Dr. Stapf has also derived much material for his treatise 

 from the collections of Herr Dinklage (of Messrs. Woermann), 

 and from those made by the foresters in the employ of the 

 Liberian Rubber Corporation — Messrs. David Sim, Harold 

 Reynolds, J. Cosh, and F. J. Whicker. 



The author has to thank the Directors of the Liberian 

 Chartered and Monrovian Rubber Companies for the information 

 derived from the botanical and zoological collections made by 

 their employes which are now in the national collections at Kew 

 and the British Museum. He has also used in this book a 

 number of interesting photographs taken for the Liberian 

 Development Company by Sir Simeon Stuart, Bart., Mr. T. H. 

 Myring, the Due de Morny, Mr. J. P. Crommelin, and others. 

 The Liberian Government or the Liberian Consul-General in 

 London (Mr. Henry Hayman) has also placed photographs at the 

 author's disposal, and he owes the use of others to Mr. G. W. 

 Ellis, Secretary to the American Legation at Monrovia. Mr. 

 C. H. Firmin, of the Sierra Leone Railway, has most kindly lent 



