-»s The Liberian Flora 



racemes up to i ft. long and orange-coloured smooth capsules, 

 over I in. across, breaking up into 3 woody valves ; Monrovia 

 and Kakatown, IV/iyte ! — Also in Sierra Leone. 



*Deinbollia polypus, Stapf: a glabrous tree (?) or shrub with pinnate 

 shining leaves (the leaflets lanceolate, up to 8 in. by 2| in.), 

 stiff sparingly branched panicles of almost sessile fascicles of 

 whitish flowers, scarcely \ in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



•D. grandifolia, Hook. f. : a small tree similar to the preceding species 

 but with the largest leaflets 10 in. by 4 in., and larger, more 

 branched panicles up to i ft. long ; Kakatown, Wkyte ! ; Cape 

 Palmas, Vogel, 66 ! 



Dodonsea viscosa, L. : a small shrub or tree with viscid branchlets, 

 lanceolate thinly coriaceous leaves, small apetalous flowers in 

 terminal panicles, and capsules with 3 pink membranous wings ; 

 Monrovia, lV/iyte\—The crushed branches, saturated with their 

 resin, serve in some parts of Africa as torches. According to 

 Moloney the wood is also used for engraving and in turnery. 



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*Bersama leiostegia, Stapf: a glabrous shrub or tree (?) with pinnate 

 13 — 17-foliolate leaves, acuminate lanceolate stipules (up to 

 over I in. long and glabrous with the exception of the ciliolate 

 margins) and rigid racemes of greyish tomentose flowers, over 

 \ in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



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ichoscypha liberica, Engl. : a tall shrub with densely hairy dark 

 brown young twigs, pinnate 9-foliolate shining leaves, over I ft. 

 long and very hairy axillary panicles (5 — 6 in. long) of minute 

 flowers ; near Monrovia, Nauinann. 



Odina acida, Walp. : a small deciduous glabrous tree with pinnate 

 leaves, 7 — II oblique leaflets and short terminal panicles of 

 clustered minute flowers ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 102 ! — The 

 powdered bark is, with some other substances, made into a 

 paint for the face. 



Spondias lutea, Z. : a tall glabrous tree with pinnate leaves, J — i^ 

 ft. long, 7 — 19 more or less opposite oblique leaflets, and 

 panicles of small flowers and yellow plum-like fruits ; Grand 



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