■^ The Liberian Flora 



fascicled small green and red flowers and ovoid pendulous fruits 

 borne on the lengthened ribbon-like blood-red pedicels, up to 

 2| in. by | in. ; Kakatown, IVkyte ! 



ARISTOLOCHIACE^ 



Aristolochia sp. (from drawing by Sir H. H. Johnston and reported 

 by Mr. Jolin Gow). (For Illustration, vide p. 539.) 



PIPERACEy^ 



Heckeria snbpeltata, Kmitli. : a climber with long-petioled deeply 

 cordate leaves, \ ft. by § — i ft, and shortly peduncled umbels 

 of 4 — 7 spikes, 4 in. by ^ in. ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! — This is 

 considered by some botanists as identical with the South 

 American Heckeria imtbellata, Kunth., which possesses an aromatic 

 root {Radix periparobo or cupeba of commerce) and eatable 

 berries from which an oil similar to anis oil is prepared. 



MYRISTICACE^ 



*Pycnantlius dinklagei, Warb. : a dioecious tree, 30 ft. high, with 

 drooping branches, elliptic leaves, short axillary moderately 

 divided rusty downy panicles of very small heads of minute 

 male flowers (female flowers and fruits unknown) ; on laterite 

 in the hinterland of Grand Basa, Dinklage, 1624! — The seeds 

 of an allied species, P. kombo, Warb. {syn. Myristica koiiibo, Baill., 

 M. inicrocepliala, Benth.) are said to contain as much as 'j'i, per 

 cent, of fat, and to burn like a candle. They have occasionally 

 been imported into Europe as " African oil seeds." 



LAURACEyE 



*Afrodaphne caudata, Stapf (Plate 263) : a tree (?) with oblong long- 

 acuminate glabrous coriaceous leaves up to 9 in. long and loose 

 finely downy panicles (to 8 in. long) of inconspicuous turbinate 

 flowers, I in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



*A. euryneura, Stapf : a tree (?) similar to the preceding species, but 

 with shortly accuminate or aristulate leaves and smaller flowers 

 ^j in. long; Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



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