Liberia *^ 



annual with numerous usually short-peduncled axillary globose 

 very compact heads of small whitish flowers, the calyx J in. 

 long with spinescent teeth ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



H. atronibens, Poit. : a procumbent or ascending pubescent weed 

 with peduncied globose heads of small whitish 2-lipped 

 flowers, the calyx ^ in. long with bristle-like teeth ; Kakatown, 

 JV/tyU ! 



H. suaveolens, Poti. : a much-branched and strong-scented annual 

 with few-flowered axillary peduncied cymes of small whitish 

 2-lipped flowers, |t in. long, a native of Tropical America, 

 naturalised in many parts of the Old World ; Monrovia, 

 IV/iyfe ! 



Leonotis pallida, Benth : an annual hairy herb with ovate, crenate 

 leaves and dense globular axillary whorls of pale yellow 

 tomentose flowers, i in. long, with spinescent bracts and calyx 

 teeth ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 36 ! 



L. nepetaefolium, R. Br. : a_ coarse pubescent weed with 2 — 4 distant 

 very dense globular whorls of scarlet or orange-coloured flowers 

 (of the shape of those of a dead-nettle) and spinescent calyx 

 teeth ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



AMARANTACE^ 



Celosia laxa, Schum : a climbing herb with compact compound spikes 



of greenish white scarious flowers ; Monrovia, IV/iyie ; Grand 



l^asa, Voge/, 82 ! 

 Amarantus spinosa, L. : a spiny much-branched weed with panicles 



of long flexuous continuous or interrupted spikes of clustered 



small green flowers'; Kakatown, Whyte ! 

 Cyathula prostrata, Bl. : a weed with stems ascending to 1 — 3 ft. 



from a creeping base, opposite leaves and slender spikes of 



ultimately reflexed sessile hook-spined clusters of small greenish 



flowers ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 

 Altemanthera achyranthoides, Forsk. ; a decumbent herb with small 



sessile axillary clusters of minute white scarious flowers ; Cape 



Palmas, Vogel\ 



POLYGONACE^ 



Brunnichia africana, Welw. : a glabrous shrub, climbing high and far, 

 with bifid terminal tendrils, long very loose racemes of solitary or 



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