-^ The Liberian Flora 



tall shrub with 7 — 9-foliolate coriaceous leaves and long stiff 

 racemes of showy rose-coloured flowers with 4 sepals (f in. long). 

 3 larger (the largest over i in. long) and 2 smaller petals and 

 slender narrowly 4-winged pods ; Kakatown and Sino Basin, 

 Whyte ! 



Cassia occidentalis, L. : an annual or biennial bushy herb with leaves 

 of 8 — 10 leaflets, short racemes or fascicles of slightly irregular 

 yellow flowers, i in. or more across, and flat linear pods, 4 — S i"- 

 by \ in., with stout sutures ; Monrovia and Grand Basa, Vogel ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! — The seeds are occasionally used as a 

 substitute for coffee. 



C. tora, L. : an annual herb with leaves of 4—6 membranous obtuse 

 leaflets, solitary or paired yellow flowers, about i in. across, and 

 slender curved linear more or less quadrangular pods, 4 — 8 in. 

 by \ — \ in. ; Kakatown, Whyte ! ; abundant near habitations, 

 Cape Palmas, Vogel\ 



C. podocarpa, Gitill. and Perr. : a shrub or small tree with leaves of 

 8 — 10 membranous obtuse leaflets, and peduncled dense racemes 

 of yellow flowers, about i in. across, and broad linear flat almost 

 papery pods, 4 — 5 in. by | — | in. ; very common on native 

 farms, about 70 miles up the St. Paul's River, Reynolds ! 



C. mimusoides, L. : an annual or perennial herb with leaves J — 4 in. 

 long, and of 10 — 80 close pairs of straight or falcate narrow 

 leaflets, y\ — | in. long, solitary or fascicled (2 — 3) flowers, ^ in. 

 across, and flat linear pods, i — 2 in. by ^ — i in. ; a common weed ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte I; Cape Palmas, Anselll 



'Dialium dinklagei, Harms. : a moderate-sized tree with an umbrella- 

 like top with 21 — 23-foliolate leaves, 6 — 8 in. long, coriaceous 

 leaflets, i — li in. long, and terminal large panicles of numerous 

 small brownish apetalous flowers; along the streams in the 

 littoral, Fishtown, Dinklage, 1709! 



*Polystemonanthus dinklagei, Harms. : a tree with pinnate 10 — 14- 

 foliolate leaves, more or less silky below, shining above and up 

 to i^ ft. long, stout panicled racemes of very sweet-scented white 

 flowers, almost 2 in. across, with 4 silky brown sepals and 5 

 clawed petals and very numerous stamens, the buds enclosed in 

 large thick subpersistent bracteoles ; banks of the St. John's 

 River near Grand Basa, Dinklage, 1700! 



*Macrolobium obliquum, Stapf: a shrub with pinnate 14-foliolate 



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