^*> The Liberian Flora 



Premna hispida, Benth. : a hairy shrub or tree with opposite oblong 

 leaves and short, dense, very hairy corymbs of white flowers with 

 a tube J in. long and a 2-lipped limb ; Monrovia, Kakatown, 

 and Sine Basin, Whyte ! 



Clerodendron splendens, G. Don. : a small tree or shrub (sometimes 

 climbing) with opposite oblong leaves and ample handsome 

 corymbs of red flowers with a tube f — i in. long, and S lobes 

 ^ — -I in. long, and long exserted stamens ; Monrovia and 

 Kakatown, V/kyte ! 



C. scandens, Beauv. : a rambling finely downy shrub with opposite 

 cordate-ovate leaves and ample loose panicles of pretty white 

 flowers (i in. long) with a red centre and long exserted stamens, 

 and with deep black-green drupes supported by the ultimately 

 red calyx ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, Whyte ! ; 

 Cape Palmas, Vogel, 53 ! 



Vitex grandifolia, Giirke : a small glabrous tree with digitate leaves, 

 corymbs of yellowish flowers up to | in. long, and fruits re- 

 sembling small plums ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! — The fruits are 

 eatable and, according to Millen, used for making a kind of rum. 



Avicennia africana, Beauv.: a tree, 12—40 ft. high, with lanceolate 

 leaves, tomentose beneath, and small white flowers in globose 

 heads, arranged in panicled spikes ; a frequent constituent of 

 the Mangrove woods. Grand Basa, Vogel ; Sino River, Whyte ! — 

 The compact fibrous wood is said to be very useful for 

 shipbuilding. 



LABIATE 



[Ocimum viride, Willd.: a strong-scented herb, up to 5 ft. high, with 

 (as in all the following Labiatce) opposite elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate long petioled leaves and slender often panicled 

 racemes of small white 2-lipped flowers having a calyx with 

 a very broad upper and 4 smaller pungent lateral and lower 

 teeth ; Kakatown, Whyte ! — Known as " Fever Bush " or " Tea 

 Bush " and used in fever to promote perspiration. 



I Solenostemon ocymoides, Schuin. and Thorn. : an annual herb with 

 nettle-like leaves and long spike-like racemes of subverticil- 

 late 2-lipped lilac flowers, \ in. long ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 44 ! ; 

 Sino Basin, Whyte ! 

 Hyptis brevipes, Poit. : a coarse straggling more or less glabrous 



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