Liberia <+- 



hard wood, and decoctions of the pods are used as a drastic 

 purgative. 



Onnocarpum vemicosum, Kcaiiv. : a glabrous tree or shrub with simple 

 papery ovate leaves, 34 in. by I i 2 in., small scanty racemes 

 of white red-veined papilionaceous flowers, \ in. long, and 2 5- 

 j( Milted pods, the joints with longitudinal ribs and scattered 

 tubercles ; near water at Grand Basa, Vogel, 103 ! ; Monrovia, 

 Wkyte\ 



Stylosanthes erecta, Kcanv. : a much-branched stiff hairy shrub with 

 prominently nerved 3-foliolate leaves, J | in. long, and in- 

 conspicuous often apetalous flowers, covered by rigid reticulate 

 hirsute bracts in oblong terminal or subterminal heads ; Grand 

 vering large patches of ground, Vogel, 56 ! Cape Palmas, 



< 5 ' 



Arachis hypogaea, L. : a diffuse herb with 4-foliolate leaves and 



solitary axillary papilionaceous flowers, only the lower ones 



fertile, the pods ripening under ground (hence the name" Ground 



Nut"), a native of Brazil, cultivated in Liberia, according to 



el. Cultivated throughout the tropics for the seeds, which 



used as food, and for the extraction of oil. 



Desmodium lasiocarpum, DC.: a more or less rusty hairy shrub or 



undershrub with simple ovate leaves, very slender usually 



spikelike often panicled racemes of small pinkish or purplish 



papilionaceous flowers and 5 6-articulate tomcntose pods more 



or less cohering by their hairs ; Kakatown, \Vkyte\ 



D. incanum, /)( . : a weed, downy in the upper part, with 3-foliolate 



leaves the terminal leaflet up to 4 in. long), loose racemes of 



reddish papilionaceous flowers, ( ' ; in. long, and 5 8-jointed hairy 



pods deeply constricted between the joints from one side, I in. 



by i in. ; by the roadside in Monrovia, Xannianii, 



D. mauritanicum, DC.: an erect low herb, very similar to the pre- 



!:ng, but with smaller leaflets (the terminal up to I in. long), 



and purple flowers ; Kakatown, \\'hyte\\ Grand Basa, \\\^'d, 



ape 1'almas, . \nscll\ 



D. paleaceum, (inill. and /V/r. : an undershrub with 3-foliatc leaves, 

 Ian- linear-oblong leaflets, shining above, and 3 4 in. 



i in., long dense more or less panicled spikelikc tufted 

 aired papilionaceous flowers and 5 7- 

 iark pods; Kakatown, \\'hytc \ 

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