The Liberian Flora 



*Gomphia amplectens, Staff-, like all the following species of 



a shrub with yellow or red flowers and fruits like those of 

 Ochua, but with only 10 stamens ; leaves lanceolate with an 

 auricled base, hiding the short petiole, up to I ft. by 3 in. ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte\ 



247. GOMPHIA SUBCORDATA 



G. congesta, Oliv. : leaves lanceolate, acutely serrulate, 5 7 in. by 

 2 2\ in., panicles very dense, 2 3 in. long ; Kakatown, Whyte\ 

 Identical with the Sierra Leone specimen referred to this 

 species by Oliver. Mann's specimen from Ambas Bay, enume- 

 rated by this author under the same name, is distinct. 



*G. subcordata, Stapf (plate 247) : similar to G. congesta, but the 

 leaves slightly cordate at the base, and the racemes up to 6 in. 



585 



