Liberia <•' 



SAMYDACE^ 



Homalium moUe, Stn/'f: a shrub with softly downy leaves and more 

 or less drooping panicles of very numerous flowers, the small 

 persistent petals of which form, in the mature state, wings (^V 

 in. long) to the fruits ; Sino Basin, Wkyte ! 



PASSIFLORACEJ2 



Passiflora foetida, L. : a herbaceous climber with 3-lobed leaves and 

 white flowers, supported by a much-divided (" mossy ") in- 

 volucre ; a native of America ; Sino Basin, and Kakatown, 

 Wkyte ! 



•Androsiphonia adenostegia, 5/^// (Plate 249): a glabrous shrub with 

 chartaceous leaves, rigid terminal panicles of greyish green 

 flowers supported by almost coriaceous bracts, having a large 

 gland (black when dry) on each side of the base ; Monrovia 

 and Kakatown, ]V/tyte ! 



Smeathmannia laevigata, R. Br. : an erect almost glabrous shrub with 

 glossy serrate or slightly wavy leaves and white flowers, over 

 I in. across, mostly on the underside of the spreading branches, 

 and with red crustaceous ovoid or globose fruits, i in. long ; 

 Monrovia, IV/iyte ! 



S. pabescens, R. Br. : similar to the preceding species, but inuch 

 more hairy and with larger flowers (2 in. across) and fruits, 

 not exceeding the calyx ; Kakatown, Wkyte ! ; Grand Basa, 

 Vogel, 58!; Cape Palmas, Sclwenleinl 



Barteria nigritiana. Hook. f. : a very ornamental shrub or small tree 

 with large coriaceous leaves, 6 — 10 in. by 2 — 3 in., and sessile 

 clusters of white sweet-scented Camellia-like flowers, to over 

 3 in. across, on the underside of the spreading branches ; //. H. 

 Joknston (from a drawing). 



'Soyaoxia grandifolia, Gilg and Stapf: a shrub with coriaceous 

 linear-oblong leaves, almost i ft by i^^ — 3 in., and very dense 

 long velvety spikes of small flowers with very numerous 

 .stamens; Grand Basa, Dinklage, 2051!; Sino Basin, Wliyte\ 



*Hodecca tenuispira, Stapf: a dioecious glabrous climber with long 

 fine tendrils, oblong thin leaves and green tubular flowers ^in 

 long ; Sino Basin, Wkyte ! 



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