The Liberian Flora 



TILIACE^ 



Grewia malacocarpa, Mast. : a shrub with drooping branches, oblong 

 leaves, whitish tomentose beneath, terminal and lateral loose 

 panicles of greenish white flowers, i in. across, and i -seeded 

 velvety drupes, up to i in. long ; Kakatown and Sino Basin, 

 IV/iyU ! 



Honckenya ficifolia, JVMl : a stellate-tomentose erect often very tall 

 herb with entire or variously lobed leaves, showy purple or white 

 flowers, up to 3 in. across, and densely prickly capsules ; Grand 

 Basa, l\!^e/, 57 ! 91 ! ; Sino Basin and Kakatown, f F/yVc ! 



H. parva, K. Sch. : a hirsute perennial ascending from a prostrate 

 base, with irregularly lobed leaves and small white flowers, 

 scarcely I in. across : Monrovia, Krause. 



Triumfetta cordifolia, Guill. and Ptrr. : a glabrous or hairy weed with 

 long-stalked ovate cordate or more or less 3-lobed leaves, 

 panicled ultimately loose cymes of yellow flowers, | in. across, 

 and globose capsules, covered with hooked spines, including the 

 spines \ in. or more across ; Monrovia, Whyte ! 



T. rhomboidea, Jacq. : 3. weed similar to the preceding, but with 

 much contracted axillary clusters of flowers and smaller fruits, 

 ^ in. across; Grand Basa, Ansell\; Monrovia, Wliyte\ — It 

 yields a fibre of inferior quality. 



Corchorus olitorius, L. : an almost glabrous herb, with small axillary 

 yelloa- flowers, usually in pairs or threes, and long-beaked 

 capsules, over 2 in. by i in., with the valves transversely septate 

 on the inner side ; Kakatown, W/tyte ! — The leaves are eaten 

 as a vegetable. 



Glyphaea grewioides, Hook. /: a slender shrub with a drooping habit, 

 membranous leaves, 4 — 8 in. by i| — 4 in., and scanty sub- 

 terminal cymes of yellow flowers, i — ij in. across, and oblong 

 acute deeply grooved indchiscent fruits, i| — 2^ in. by | in. ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! 



LINAGES 



Phyllocosmus africanus, Klotzsch : a shrub or small tree with thinly 

 coriaceous shining lanceolate-oblong leaves, 2\ — 3^ in. by 

 I — i^ in., and numerous slender racemes (2 — 2^ in. long) of 



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