' The fleshy pericarp is edible, and, with sugar 

 and water, made into a refreshing beverage. The fruit is known 

 iiow Plum " in Sierra Leone. 



C'ONNARACE^: 



Byrsocarpus coccineus, Sc/nnn. and Thonn. : a much-branched deciduous 



shrub with pinnate leaves, 7 n oblong to rounded thin leaflets, 



, in. long, lax few-flowered cymes of small white flowers 



and pods, \ in. long, and containing a single seed with a black 



hilum and a scarlet aril ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 37 ! 



*Connarus libericus, Staff-, a glabrous shrub with pinnate leaves, 

 34 in. long, about 9 thinly coriaceous leaflets and slender 

 rusty downy racemes or scantily branched panicles of whitish 

 flowers, 1 in. long; Monrovia, Whytc\ 



*C. reynoldsii, Staff: a very ornamental shrub with pinnate 7 9- 



foliolate coriaceous leaves and copious graceful panicles of 



.imy flowers with wavy linear petals up to f by \ in.; on 



native tracks in the forest, about 70 miles up the St. Paul's 



River, Rcynolds\ 



Spiropetalura triplinerve, Staff \ a shrub with pinnate 7 9-foliolate 

 con'areous leaves and very dense velvety solitary or fascicled 

 9 (J in. I \ in. long) of whitish flowers with linear petals, 

 up to almost ! in. long; Monrovia, \Vliytc\ 



Manotes expansa, riancli. ; a tree or climbing shrub with pinnate 

 5 /-foliolatc thinly coriaceous leaves and very lax divaricate 

 panicles (J i ft. long) of small flowers with pinkish calyx 

 and white petals; Kakatown, Wkyte \ ; Grand Basa, Vogel\ 



LKGUMINOS.K 



Crotalaria retusa, L.\ an erect herb with simple very blunt leaves 



ij ;, in. long, loose terminal racemes of yellow papilionaceous 



fl" v i in. long, and inflated cylindric pods, ij in. by 



mo H,-isin, \\'/i]'tc\ Occasionally cultivated in 



India (or its fibre and sold as "Sunn Hemp" for the manu- 



ind anvas. 



Mil) with 3-foliolate leaves, obovate leaflets, 

 racemes o{ yellow papilionaceous flowers over % in. 

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