-* The Liberian Flora 



heads, \ in. in diameter, with a biistly pappus ; Monrovia and 

 Kakatown, ]Vhyte\ 



Mikania scandens, Willd.: a glabrous climber, lo — 15 ft. long, with 

 slender stems, long-petioled triangular opposite leaves and 

 usually panicled corymbs of numerous slender whitish flower- 

 heads, \ in. long, with white pappus bristles ; Kakatown, Wliyte ! 



Sclerocarpus africanus, Jacq. : an erect hispid annual with mostly 

 alternate leaves and sessile or peduncled yellow flower-heads, 

 I — I in. in diameter and supported by foliaceous bracts without 

 a pappus ; Cape Palmas, Ansell\ 



Blumea lacera, DC. : a strong-scented more or less hairy or shaggy 

 annual with coarsely toothed leaves and long narrow panicles 

 of numerous pink or purple flower-heads, | in. long, with copious 

 pappus hairs ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Siegesbeckia abyssinica, Oliv. and Hiern : an erect annual with 

 opposite toothed leaves and more or less sticky panicles of yellow 

 flower-heads, ^ in. across, without pappus and with curved 

 smooth fruits ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Eclipta alba, Hassk. : a much-branched annual with rough lanceolate 

 opposite leaves and short or long-peduncled scattered or paired 

 white flower-heads, j — 5 in. across, without pappus ; Kakatown, 

 lV//yU ! 



Spilanthes acmella, L. : a herb with a creeping base, opposite ovate 

 leaves and long-peduncled yellow flower-heads, J — | in. across, 

 without a pappus or with only 2 — 3 bristles ; Kakatown, ]V/iyte ! ; 

 Cape Palmas, Voge!, 41 ! 



Emilia sagittata, DC. : a glaucous annual with mostly sagittate leaves 

 and deep orange-coloured flower-heads, ^ to almost | in. in 

 diameter, with a soft hairy pappus ; Monrovia and Kakatown, 

 W/iyte ! 



GOODENOVIACE^ 



Scaevola lobelia, L. : a prostrate shrub with fleshy leaves and yellow 

 5-lobed corollas cleft at the back ; common on or near dunes, 

 Grand Basa, Vogel, 116! 



CAMPANULACE^ 



Cephalostigma perrottetii, DC. : an erect annual with wavy lan- 

 ceolate leaves and numerous small blue flowers, \ in. long, on 



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