Liberia <^ 



flowered cymes and somewhat smaller and still slenderer flowers ; 

 Sino Basin, ]i7ij'(e ! 

 Tricalysia coriacea, Hknt : a shrub with coriaceous elliptic or oblong 

 leaves, sessile axillary clusters of white inside woolly flowers, 

 i in. long, and i — 3-seeded berries ; common near Grand Basil, 

 Vog^e/, 112 ! 

 T. biafrana, Hiem: a small glabrous tree with ovate-lanceolate to 

 oblong leaves, 4 — 6 in. by \\ — 2 in., and dense subsessile axillary 

 clusters of white flowers, \ in. long, a villous corolla-mouth and 

 exserted stamens ; Kakatown, Wliyte ! 

 Vanguiera euonymoides, Schweinf. ex Hiem (?) : a shrub or small tree 

 with very slender branches, papery leaves, i|— 2 in. by \ — i in., 

 and small greenish flowers, borne on pedicels \ in. long and 

 having their corolla lobes tightly reflexed ; in bush, Grand Basa, 

 Dinklage, 2035 ! — I give here the Berlin determination, but 

 am rather doubtful as to its correctness. 

 Cuviera aoutiflora, DC. : a shrub with stout coriaceous oblong leaves 

 and greenish white flowers scarcely ^ in. long in numerous loose 

 panicles, distinguished by the great similarity of the linear- 

 lanceolate sepals and bracts, \—^ in. long ; Monrovia, JV/ijU I ; 

 Grand Basa, Voj>e/, 72 ! 82 1 

 Craterispermum laurinum, Benth. : a glabrous shrub or tree with 

 yellowish green coriaceous leaves and peduncled axillary clusters 

 of funnel-shaped white flowers, ^ in long ; Monrovia and Kaka- 

 town, IV/iyie ! — The bark yields a yellow dye. 

 Ixora radiata, Hiem : a glabrous large shrub with sessile lanceolate 

 to elliptic coriaceous leaves and handsome bunches of slender 

 ro.se-coloured or white flowers, the tube up to 2jin., the lobes 

 { in. long; Liberia, Millen, 196! 

 I. laxiflora, Sm. : a glabrous shrub or small tree with lanceolate or 

 oblong coriaceous shortly petioled leaves, lax often nodding 

 corymbs of slender fragrant white rose-tipped flowers, over i in. 

 long, and red berries; Monrovia, Whyte\; Grand Basa, Vogel, 

 73 ! ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 6 ! 61 ! ; Ansell\ ; Schoenlein ; Sino 

 Basin, Whyte ! 

 •I. oongesta, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with long acuminate leaves, 

 I ft. by 2 — 4 in., and very dense long- peduncled corymbs of 

 slender flowers, in bud up to i in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 

 •I. atrata, Stapf: a shrub with slender divaricate branches, con- 



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