Liberia *- 



compressed crustaceous fruits, orbicular in outline, J in. across ; 



Cape 1'almas, /*<#<*/, 46! The seeds are eaten by the Lagos 

 An allied species (A. diiuidiata, E. Mey.) yields a hard 



timber of very equal grain and fine dark grey colour. 

 Leptaulos daphnoides, BcntJi. : a glabrous shrub with light green 



twigs and leaves, the latter thinly coriaceous, dense axillary 

 iile clusters of fragrant white tubular flowers, J in. long, and 



ovoid nuts, ] in. long; Kakatown and Sino Basin, Whyte\ 

 'lodes liberica, Staff (syu. 1. reticulata, Stapf, not of King): a 



Blender climbing shrub with downy twigs, long extra axillary 



tendrils, ovate to oblong finely reticulated papery leaves and 



small panicled tetramerous flowers, T V in. long ; Kakatown and 



Sino Hasin, ll'/iytc ! 



CELASTRACK i: 



Hippocratea indica, \Villti. : a glabrous climbing shrub with coriaceous 



elliptic leaves, axillary panicles of small flowers and oblong 



fruits u in. by in.) which break up into two woody navicular 



valves and contain about 2 large winged seeds ; Monrovia, 



Wkyte\ 



H. macrophylla, Vahl. : a climbing shrub with very broad leaves, 5 9 

 in. l>y 2j- 4! in., large extremely lax divaricate panicles and 

 petals, -\ almost \ in. long; Monrovia, WJiyte\ 

 Salacia senegalensis, DC. : a small glabrous tree or shrub with warty 

 twigs, coriaceous oblong more or less opposite leaves, axillary 

 icks of finely stalked white flowers, , in. long, and applc- 

 shaped fruits over I in. in diameter ; Monrovia, ]VJiyte\ Known 

 in Sierra Leone as "Beacon Bush/' 



Salacia sp. : a shrub similar to the preceding with small yellowish 



en petals and red anthers, and with the seeds embedded in 



pulp; common near Grand Basa, Vogel>66\ 90! This 



named .V. frinonics, DC., in the Flora of Tropical Africa, 



but it is certainly distinct from that species. The material at 



hand is not sufficient to describe the species. 



S. debilis, \\'alp.: a tall glabrous shrub with slender smooth twigs 

 i"' ; M branches, oblong coriaceous leaves and fascicles of 



liked to over i in.) small white flowers, the fascicle 

 ratl i short branchlets ; Monrovia, \Vhyte \ 



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