Liberia <•- 



corymbs of small clusters of white flowers and whitish berries, the 

 corymbs and all young parts rusty hairy ; Kakatown, ]Vkyte\ 



Grumilea micrantha, Hiern : a glabrous shrub with light green foliage 

 and slender drooping panicles of distinctly pedicelled very small 

 white flowers, ^ — I in. long ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, IV/tytel 



Chasalia laxiflora, Bentk : a glabrous climbing shrub with papery long 

 acuminate leaves and terminal corymbs of waxy tubular orange 

 and crimson flowers, about i in. long; Monrovia, ]Vkyte\; 

 Grand Basa, Ansell\; Sino Basin, lVhyle\ 



Cephaelis pedunoularis, Salisb. : a glabrous shrub or undershrub with 

 prostrate stems, papery many-nerved leaves, 3 — 9 in. by li — 3I 

 in., compact involucrate long-pcdunclcd heads of small white 

 flowers and yellow berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino 

 Basin, Whyte ! ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 9 ! 40 ! 62 ! 



Lasianthus batangensis, var. longipetiolata, K. Sclnim. : a shrub with 

 quadrangular branches and axillary solitary small sessile flowers 

 and blue (?) berries; in bush, Fishtown, Dinklage, 1750. 



Diodia breviseta, Bentk. : a rambling shrub with quadrangular 

 branches, rough membranous very obliquely nerved leaves and 

 sessile axillary clusters of white flowers (^ in. long) and with 

 4 sepals ; Monrovia, IV/tyte ! ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 84 ! 



D. vaginalis, Beutli. : a succulent trailing or rambling herb with 

 crowded narrow acute leaves and axillary white flowers (| in. 

 long) with 6 sepals and exsertcd from the cufT-like fusions of 

 the leaf-bases and stipules ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 68 ! 



D. rubricosa, Hiern : a trailing herb with rough elliptic fleshy 

 coriaceous leaves and axillary white flowers, similar to those of 

 the preceding species, but smaller and with 2 sepals ; .Sino 

 Basin, W/iyle ! 



Spermacoce globosa, Schuni. and Thomi. : a glabrous herb or shrublet 

 with lanceolate linear-oblong membranous leaves and solitary 

 superimposed globose compact heads of minute white flowers ; 

 common in sandy plains, Monrovia and Kakatown, lV/iyte\; 

 Grand Basa, Vogel, 37 ! ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



composite: 



Ageratum conyzoides, L. -. a herbaceous weed with opposite ovate 

 crcnate leaves and dense terminal corymbs of violet flower- 



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