Liberia <*- 



with single or paired small red ellipsoid drupes ; Monrovia 

 and Sine Basin, W/ij/iel; Greenville, Situ, 5! — The fruits 

 are a powerful emetic, according to Afzelius. Sim states that 

 the latex j'ields good rubber ; there is, however, no corroborating 

 evidence, although the species is widely spread throughout 

 Tropical Africa. 



Allamanda cathartica, L. : a spreading shrub with showy yellow 

 funnel-shaped flowers, a native of tropical South America, 

 cultivated and occasionally naturalised in Tropical Africa ; 

 Monrovia, IV/tyte ! 



Lochnera rosea, Reichb. : a small undershrub with solitary or paired 

 axillary pretty pink or white flowers and slender spreading 

 follicles, probably a native of the West Indies, now widely 

 naturalised in the tropics, chiefly near the coasts ; Monrovia, 

 JI70'fe\ 



Callichilia subsessilis, Stapf [syn. Tabernasmontana subscssilis, Benth) : 

 a climbing or erect shrub or small tree with thin leaves and 

 showy snow-white flowers (tube slender, i in. long, lobes broad, 

 over I in. long), and with paired rostrate baccate follicles, 

 about I in. long ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Two of Whyte's sketches, drawn from plants observed 

 at Batombatown, may possibly have to be referred to this 

 species, but the follicles are less distinctly beaked and up to 

 2^ in. long ; they are described as bright yellow. Whyte 

 states of those plants that they are tapped by the natives for 

 rubber. 



•C. stenosepala, Stapf (Plate 255) : a shrub similar to the preceding 

 but with longer and narrow sepals, to over \ in. long, and 

 with shorter corolla lobes ; Grant's Farm on the Sino River, 

 Whyte ! 



Gabunia glandulosa, Stapf: a climbing shrub with slender fistular 

 branches, oblong long-acuminate leaves and dense corymbs of 

 showy fragrant white flowers (tube about 2 in. long, oblique 

 long tapering lobes over i in. long) ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, 

 Whyte ! 



Conopharyngia longiflora, Stapf {syn. Tabern.-emontana longiflora, 

 Bettth, Plate 256): a tree with more or less oblong leaves 

 (4 — 10 in. by 2 — 5 in.) and small clusters of pedicelled large 

 fragrant white fleshy flowers (calyx ^ — \ in., tube 3 — 3I in., 



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