Liberia <♦' 



0. heynei, Oliv. : a slender much-branched weed with linear leaves 

 and numerous small white mostly axillary flowers on capillary 

 pedicels, J — J in. long ; Monrovia, Whyte ! 



0. lanoifolia, Sclnveinf. : a glabrous straggling annual with distant 

 pairs of linear to lanceolate leaves, solitary or fascicled small 

 white flowers and fine pedicels, | — i in. long; Kakatown, 

 U'/o'^e ! 



*0. caespitosa, Hiern. : a small prostrate herb with linear-oblong leaves 

 and minute white axillary flowers on short pedicels, J — ^ in. 

 long; Cape Palmas, I'ogel, 51! 



Mussaenda conopharyngiifolia, Stapf: a shrub or small tree (?) with 

 large elliptic leaves, over 6 in. by 3I in, and hirsute corymbs 

 of slender orange-coloured flowers (i in. long), with a few 

 sepals in each corymb much enlarged, leaflike and white ; Sino 

 Hashi; Whyte. 



M. macrosepala, Stapf: a rather hairy shrub or small tree (?) with 

 many-nerved leaves, 4 in. by 2 in., densely hirsute cymes of 

 orange- coloured tomentose flowers, over i in. long and the 

 limb I in. across, with all the sepals lanceolate and i in. long ; 

 Kakatown and Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



Urophyllum hirtellum, Bentli. : a more or less hairy shrub or small 

 tree with many-nerved papery leaves, 4—11 in. by i| — 4 in., 

 axillary corymbs of small greenish flowers and globose berries ; 

 Sino Hasin, Whyte ! 



Sabicea discolor, Stapf: a climbing .shrub with ovate leaves, softly 

 greyish tomentose beneath, on petioles not much over i in. long, 

 and short hirsute panicles of numerous pink tubular flowers, 

 almost J in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



•S. loxothyrsus. A'. Schuvi. and Diiikl. : very similar to the pre- 

 ceding but with longer petioles (i — 1| in.) and whitish flowers 

 and berries; in bush near Grand Basa, Dinklage, 1903! 

 •S. lasiooaljrx, Stapf: a climbing shrub with many-nerved leaves, 

 6—8 in. by2| — 4 in., and cinnamon-coloured beneath, and long- 

 peduncled involucrate globose very hirsute flower-heads, at 

 length 2 in. across ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, 

 Whyte \ 

 Heinsia jasminiflora, DC. : a shrub or small tree with glossy papery 

 lanceolate to elliptic leaves, slender erect branches and small 

 cymes of fragrant flowers, i in. across, pure white and ycllow- 



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