Liberia *- 



0. heynei, (V/r. : a slender much-branched weed with linear leaves 

 and numerous small white mostly axillary flowers on capillary 

 pcdi [ in. long ; Monrovia, \Vhyte\ 



0. lancifolia, Sc/ncciiif. : a glabrous straggling annual with distant 

 pairs of linear to lanceolate leaves, solitary or fascicled small 

 white flowers and fine pedicels, i I in. long; Kakatown, 



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*0. caespitosa, ///<///. : a small prostrate herb with linear-oblong leaves 

 and minute white axillary flowers on short pedicels, J in. 

 long; Cape Talmas, I'o^r/, 51! 



Mussaenda conopharyngiifolia, Stapf: a shrub or small tree (?) with 



large elliptic leaves, over 6 in. by 3^ in , and hirsute corymbs 



-lender orange-coloured flowers (i in. long), with a few 



sepals in each corymb much enlarged, leaflike and white; Sino 



l'.,i-in, \Vliytc. 



M. macrosepala, SfaJ>f: a rather hairy shrub or small tree (?) with 

 many-nerved leaves, 4 in. by 2 in., densely hirsute cymes of 

 orange-coloured tomentose flowers, over I in. long and the 

 limb i in. across, with all the sepals lanceolate and I in. long ; 

 Kakatown and Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



Urophyllum hirtellum, Bcnth. : a more or less hairy shrub or small 

 with many-nerved papery leaves, 411 in. by j 4 in., 

 axillary corymbs of small greenish flowers and globose berries ; 

 Sino Basin, \\'liytc \ 



Sabicea discolor, Staff: a climbing shrub with ovate leaves, softly 

 j ish tomentose beneath, on petioles not much over i- in. long, 

 and >hort hirsute panicles of numerous pink tubular flowers, 

 almost \ in. long; Sino Basin, \Vhyte\ 



*S. loxothyrsus, A'. Scliuin. and DinkL : very similar to the prc- 

 ling but with longer petioles (i ij in.) and whitish flowers 

 and berries; in bush near Grand Hasfi, Ditikla^c, 1903! 

 *S. lasiocalyx, Staff: a climbing shrub with many-nerved leaves, 

 S in. by jJ, 4 in., and cinnamon-coloured beneath, and long- 

 um led involucratc globose very hirsute flower-heads, at 

 th 2 in. across ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, 

 Whyte\ 



Heinsia jasminiflora, DC. : a shrub or small tree with glossy papery 

 Ian to elliptic leaves, slender erect branches and small 



fra ;..:, flowers, i in. across, pure white and ycllow- 

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