na * 



*E. whytei, \//v/v/^' : very similar to the preceding species, but the 

 your, g twigs glabrous and the leaves less coriaceous; Monrovia 

 and Sino Basin, \\'hytc ! 



*E. memecyloides, />Y///7/. : a shrub similar to the preceding species 

 but with simple rod-like stems rising to 4 ft. from the ground ; 

 uul Basa, / 'ogcl, 9 



Syzygium rowlandi, Spragnc. (nov. spec.) : a shrub or tree (?) with 

 square slightly winged branchlets ; leaves oblong or obovate 

 acuminate, 3 6 in. by ij 2\ in., dark and shining above, paler 

 and dullish below ; flowers white (?) in a terminal corymb 

 (4 5 in. across) of umbel-like cymes of 5 9 flowers each ; tube 

 of the receptacle about \ in. long ; calyx lobes unequal, rounded, 

 in. long, ,\, k in- broad ; petals falling off together in 

 a cap when the flower opens ; Kakatown, WJiyte ! Vogel's 

 specimen from Grand Basa, mentioned in Flora Nigritiana 

 as Xy'-yginin oicarioisis, Benth., also seems to belong rather to 

 this species than to Syzygiuin oivariensc, Benth. (= Eugenia 

 oi^uricnsis, Bcauv.). A', nwlaudii also occurs in Lagos. 



Psidium guajava, L. : a shrub or small tree with large fragrant white 

 flowers and pear-shaped or plum-shaped yellowish, greenish or 

 purplish berries, cultivated near Monrovia according to Vogel. 

 Commonly cultivated on account of the edible fruit, the well- 

 known " Guava " of America, and not rarely naturalised in 

 Africa. 



Napoleona vogelii, Hook, and Planch : a small glabrous shrubby tree 

 with alternate coriaceous leaves and subsessile flowers having 

 an almost rotate cienate corolla (yellow with a red ring at the 

 ba^e) with a yellow to white corona, consisting of very numerous 

 lineai- segments, and with fruits like a pomegranate ; Cape 

 Talmas, / ",>;,/, 45 ! 



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Osbeckia tubulosa, .S'///. : a weak annual with 4-angled stems, bristly 

 'il"' small ultimately distant pink flowers in slender 



-I spikes, the calyx produced into a long tube covered 

 with stalked stellate bristles; Kakatown, \Vliytc\ 

 *0. liberica, S/,i/ nder coarsely hairy herb with lanceolate 



y panicles of rose-coloured flowers over jj in. 

 nrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, \\'liytc\ 

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