Liber ia -^ 



" Congo Pea " of English colonists. The green pods and seeds 



are used as a vegetable, the mature seeds as a kind of pulse. 



Ehynchosia oalycina, Guill. and Perr. : an ornamental climber with 



3-foliolate leaves, dense racemes of cream-coloured papilionaceous 



flowers, § in. long, with a large velvety calyx, the corollas 



turning orange or red when dry, and with grey velvety pods, 



J in. long and containing 1—2 shining bluish black seeds ; 



Kakatown and Sino Basin, W/ij/U ! 



Eriosema parviflorum, E. Mey. : a low softly hairy shrub with petioled 



3-foliolate leaves, dense long-peduncled racemes of reddish 



papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, and flat shaggy pods, ^ in. 



by \ in. ; Grand Basa, Voge/l ; Anselll 



E. glomeratum, Hook.f. : an erect low softly hairy shrub with almost 



sessile 3-foliolate leaves, dense axillary subsessile heads of yellow 



papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, and shaggy pods, | in. by \ in. ; 



Monrovia, Whyte I ; Sino Basin, W/iyte ! ; Cape Palmas, Ansell\ ; 



Vogcl,€yo\ 



Dalbergia saxatilis, Hook.f. : a straggling or climbing glabrous shrub, 



often of considerable size, with pinnate 9 — ii-foliolate leaves, 



oblong very obtuse leaflets, f — 2 in. by J — i in., axillary and 



terminal, sometimes large, panicles of white or rose-coloured 



flowers, i in. long, and i -seeded thin glabrous indehiscent pods, 



up to over 3 in. by almost i in. ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and 



Sino Basin, W/iytel ; Cape Palmas, AnselP. 



•D. dinklagei, Harms. : a densely branched shrub, similar to the 



preceding, but with smaller leaflets (the longest i^ in. by | in.), 



very short dense axillary and terminal panicles and firmer rusty 



downy pods ; in the bush of the littoral. Grand Basa, Dinklage, 



1724, 1766! 



D. ecastaphyllum, Taub. : a prostrate shrub with ascending stems (up 



to 20 ft. high), usually simple leaves, i|— 6 in. by 1—4 in., dense 



short axillary panicles of white papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, 



and flat indehiscent pods of the size of a halfpenny ; very 



common in the bu.sh of the savannahs of the littoral. Grand 



Basa, Vogel, 52 ! ; Dinklage, 1986 I ; and in a peculiar form (van 



trifoliata, Stapf), distinguished by very large oblong leaves or 



(in trifoliolate leaves) terminal leaflets, in the Sino basin, Whyte I 



I would refer here to D. melanoxylon, Guill. and Perr. (Plate 



141), a small much-branched glabrous tree with a trunk up to 



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