Liberia <- 



small clusters of white flowers and whitish berries, the 

 rymbs and all young parts rusty hairy ; Kakatown, Whyte\ 

 Grumilea micrantha, Ilicrn : a glabrous shrub with light green foliage 

 and slender drooping panicles of distinctly pedicelled very small 

 white flowers, ,'. i in. long ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, \\ T hytc\ 

 Chasalia laxiflora, /'<///// : a glabrous climbing shrub with papery long 

 acuminate leaves and terminal corymbs of waxy tubular orange 

 and crimson flowers, about J in. long; Monrovia, \\'liytc\\ 

 (irand Basa, Anscll\\ Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



Cephaelis peduncularis, Salisb. : a glabrous shrub or undcrshrub with 

 prostrate stems, papery many-nerved leaves, 3 9 in. by iJ, 3! 

 in., compact involucrate long-peduncled heads of small white 

 (lowers and yellow berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino 

 Basin, \\'hyte\; Cape Palmas, Vo^cl, 9! 40! 62! 

 Lasianthus batangensis, var. longipetiolata, K. Schuui. : a shrub with 

 quadrangular branches and axillary solitary small sessile flowers 

 and blue (?) berries; in bush, Fishtown, Diuklage, 1750. 

 Diodia breviseta, Kenfh. : a rambling shrub with quadrangular 

 branches, rough membranous very obliquely nerved leaves and 

 -ile axillary clusters of white flowers (| in. long) and with 

 pals; Monrovia, Whyte\\ Grand Rasa, \ T ogc!, 84! 

 D. vaginalis, In-ntJi. : a succulent trailing or rambling herb with 

 .vdcd narrow acute leaves and axillary white flowers (.', in. 

 long with 6 sepals and cxscrtcd from the cuff-like fusions of 

 the leaf-bases and stipules; Grand Basa, 1'ogi'/, 68! 

 D. rubricosa, I licru : a trailing herb with rough elliptic fleshy 

 us leaves and axillary white flowers, similar to those of 

 the preceding species, but smaller and with 2 sepals ; Sino 

 Basin, \VIivtc\ 



Spermacoce globosa, Sc/i/nn. and Thotm, : a glabrous herb or shrublct 



with lanceolate linear-oblong membranous leaves and solitary 



superimpi-cd globose- compact heads of minute white flowers; 



Miion in sandy plain.s, Monrovia and Kakatown, //7/r/V!; 



'/, 37!; Sino Basin, //7/vA 1 ! 



COMPOSIT i 



Ageratum conyzoides, I.. -. a herbaceous weed with opposite ovate 

 uid dense terminal corymbs of violet flowcr- 

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