-* The Liberian Flora 



species occurs in America, where it is a common constituent 

 of the Mangrove woods in an arborescent form which possesses 

 a hard, dense, and very durable wood. It is there known as 

 " Button Mangrove." 



Laguncularia racemosa, Gaertn. : a gregariously growing shrub or 

 small tree of the Mangrove woods with fleshy coriaceous opposite 

 elliptic leaves, and ultimately very loose spikes of small in- 

 conspicuous flowers and ribbed i -seeded fruits, j in. long; 

 (iraml Hasa, \'ogel> I IO ! 



*Combretum calobotrys, Engl. and Diets. : a climbing shrub with more 

 or less opposite glabrous coriaceous leaves and long racemes 

 of deep red flowers with a campanulate receptacle (calyx), 1 in. 

 long; in bush on latcrite, Fishtown, Dinklage, I575J 1862!; 

 Kakatown, Wkyte\ 



C. fuscum, Planch. : a tall shrub with opposite glabrous coriaceous 

 leaves, drying almost black, and rusty tomentose dense usually 

 panicled spikes of small flowers (receptacle J in. long) and 

 4-winged fruits ; in the bush of the littoral, Fishtown, Dinklage, 

 1673 ! ; Ansell\ 



C. grandiflorum, G. Don. : a climbing shrub with opposite almost 

 glabrous firmly membranous leaves, dense one-sided spikes of 

 handsome flowers with a funnel-shaped receptacle, } I in. long, 

 and crimson petals and 4-winged fruits ; Monrovia, Vogel\ ; 

 Kakatown, Wtiyte \ ; in the bush of the littoral near Grand Basa, 

 Dink Inge, 1756! ; Cape Pa 1m as, Schoenlein\ 



C. comosum, Don. : a climbing shrub with thinly coriaceous almost 

 glabrous leaves, usually in whorls of 3, large panicles of crimson 

 flowers with funnel-shaped receptacles, J in long, and 4-winged 

 fruits ; Kakatown, Whyte \ 



MYRTACE^E 



Eugenia calycina, Benth. : a shrub with opposite coriaceous leaves 

 and paired or solitary long-pedicelled rather large myrtle-like 

 flowers, i in. across ; Monrovia, Whyte ! ; Grand Basa, Vogel t 

 85 ! ; Sino Basin, Whyte \ 



E. callophylloides, DC. : a shrub with downy young twigs, dull green 

 very coriaceous leaves and dense axillary clusters of subsessile 

 small white flowers ; Monrovia, Whyte \ 



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