Liberia <+- 



small white flowers, J in. long, with persistent petals and 

 i 2-seeded capsules J in. long ; Cape Palmas, Sc/wcti/chi ; 

 Grand Basa, Dinklage, 2034 ! 



MALPHIGIACEJ: 



Heteropterys africana, A. fuss. : a glabrous shrub, sometimes climbing, 

 with very coriaceous leaves, 4 8 in. by 2 4 in., rusty tomentose 

 racemes of yellow flowers (^ in. across, and with a whorl of 

 large glands on the calyx) and red-winged fruits ; Grand Basa, 

 Vogel, 35!; Monrovia and Sino Basin, WJiytc\ 



Flabellaria paniculata, Cav. : a climbing shrub with thin opposite 

 leaves, beautifully silvery silky underneath, panicles of white 

 or pinkish flowers, J in. across, and fruits with a circular 2-lobed 

 thin wing, I 1 in. across ; Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



RUTACE^E 



Zanthoxylum guineense, Stapf (sp. nov.) : a prickly shrub, prickles 

 straight, \ in. long : leaves pinnate, 5 7-foliolate, with a 

 narrowly winged rachis (including the petiole 2 2j in. long) 

 and elliptic to obovate leaflets, I i J in. by -?> \ in., the upper- 

 most often with a cuneate base, the nerves finely downy in 

 the young leaf ; flowers 5-merous, hermaphrodite, whitish downy, 

 in terminal panicles (i 3 in. long) and subterminal small 

 corymbs on slender peduncles, under J in. long, calyx lobes 

 triangular, very small, petals J in. long; Cape Palmas, Anscll\ 

 Also in Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot, 4887 ! 5310! 



Citrus aurantium, /,. : the common Orange, cultivated at Cape Palmas, 

 / r ogel t 28 ! 



Vogel also states that " Lemons " and " Limes " are cultivated 

 in Liberia. 



OCHNACK.K 



Ochna multiflora, DC. : a small glabrous shrub with coriaceous leaves, 

 4 5 in. by ij 2 in., nodding racemes of long-stalked bright 

 yellow flowers; J in. across, numerous stamens, and fruits con- 

 sisting of several small black drupes on a red disc, surrounded 

 by the persistent red calyx ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, \\'liytc\ ; 

 along watercourses near Grand Basa, Dinklagi\ 1647 ! 



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