Liberia >•- 



Basa, Vogel, 25 ! — The fleshy pericarp is edible, and, with sugar 

 and water, made into a refreshing beverage. The fruit is known 

 as " Yellow Plum " in Sierra Leone. 



CONNARACE^ 



B]rrsocaxpa8 coccineus, Schuin. and Thonn. : a much-branched deciduous 

 shrub with pinnate leaves, 7 — 11 oblong to rounded thin leaflets, 

 j — \ in. long, lax few-flowered cymes of small white flowers 

 and pods, \ in. long, and containing a .single seed with a black 

 hilum and a scarlet aril ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, ^7 ! 



•Connarus libericus, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with pinnate leaves, 

 3 — 4 in. long, about 9 thinly coriaceous leaflets and slender 

 rusty downy racemes or scantily branched panicles of whitish 

 flowers, \ in. long ; Monrovia, Whyte ! 



•C. reynoldsii, Stapf: a very ornamental shrub with pinnate 7 — 9- 

 foliolate coriaceous leaves and copious graceful panicles of 

 creamy flowers with wavy linear petals up to § by \ in. ; on 

 native tracks in the forest, about 70 miles up the St. Paul's 

 River, Reynolds ! 



•Spiropetalum triplinerve, Stapf: a shrub with pinnate 7 — 9-foliolate 

 coriaceous leaves and very dense velvety solitary or fascicled 

 racemes (f in.— \\ in. long) of whitish flowers with linear petals, 

 up to almost \ in. long ; Monrovia, Whyte\ 



Manotes expansa. Planch. ; a tree or climbing shrub with pinnate 

 5 — 7-foliolate thinly coriaceous leaves and very lax divaricate 

 panicles (| — i ft. long) of small flowers with pinkish calyx 

 and white petals ; Kakatown, Whyte \; Grand Basa, Vogel \ 



LEGUMINOS^ 



Crotalaria retusa, Z. : an erect herb with simple very blunt leaves 

 i^ — 3 in. long, loose terminal racemes of yellow papilionaceous 

 flowers, \ — I in. long, and inflated cylindric pods, i| in. by 

 almost J in. ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! — Occasionally cultivated in 

 India for its fibre and sold as " Sunn Hemp " for the manu- 

 facture of cordage and canvas. 



C. falcata, Vahl: a low shrub with 3-foliolate leaves, obovate leaflets, 

 terminal racemes of yellow papilionaceous flowers over \ in. 



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