Liberia <•' 



which are 2 in. long, united for two-thirds into a tube, slit on 

 one side ; in the bush of the Httorai, Grand Basa, Dinklage 

 1648, 2023 i 



*A. tenuiflora, Dink/, and Engl. : a tall shrub or slender tree similar 

 to the preceding, but with almost glabrous racemes or panicles 

 of smaller reddish brown (when dry) flowers, | in. across, and 

 filaments 1 in. long ; in the bush of the littoral, Fi.shtown, 

 Dink/age, 1675, 1772, 2101 ! 



*A. whjrtei, Stapf: a shrub also similar to A. dinklagei, but with 

 almost glabrous racemes of greenish white flowers, f in. across, 

 and filaments i] in. long ; Monrovia and Kakatown, Whyte ! 



CRASSULACE.E 



Bryophyllum calycinum, Salisb. : a succulent herb with a shrubby 

 base, crcnate leaves, frequently producing young plants from 

 the notches, and green and reddish purple pendulous flowers ; 

 Monrovia, IV/iyte ! 



RHIZOPHORACE^: 



Rhizophora racemosa, G. F. Mey. : a .shrub or small tree with opposite 

 broad lanceolate very coriaceous leaves, dichotomous axillary 

 corymbs of greenish yellow tetramerous flowers with very 

 coriaceous sepals, and ovoid fruits germinating on the tree ; 

 it forms the bulk of the Mangrove woods on the banks of 

 the rivers near Grand Basa, Voge/, 113!; Monrovia and Sino 

 Basin, W/iyte ! — The bark of the Mangroves is used in tanning. 



*Cassipourea csesia, Stapf: a shrub with very slender branches, 

 remarkably glaucous opposite leaves and little clusters of small 

 flowers having densely woolly petals ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



C. parvifolia, Stapf (syn. Dactylopetalum parvifolium, Scott Elliot) : 

 a glabrous shrub with small solitary inconspicuous hairy flowers 

 (the small petals being in the upper part fringed with filiform 

 lacinia;) in the axils of the opposite coriaceous leaves ; Monrovia, 

 W/tyte ! 



COMBRETACE^ 



Conocarpus erectus, Jacq. : a small shrub with lanceolate coriaceous 

 leaves, acutely angular branches, and small apetalous flowers 

 in panicled globose heads ; Grand Basa, Vogel. -The same 



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