Liberia 



SOLANACE^: 



Solanum anomalum, Schuin. and Thonn. : a coarse tomentose herb 

 with prickly stems and leaves, bluish white nodding flowers and 

 red erect berries ; Kakatown, WJiyte \ ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 83 ! ; 

 Grant's Farm by the Sino River, \Vhytc\\ Cape Palmas, 

 Vogel, 13! 



S. aculeatissimum, facq. : similar to the preceding but less coarse, 

 glabrous or more or less finely setose, prickly all over, including 

 the flowers, with nodding scarlet berries, i in. across ; Kakatown, 

 WhyU\ 



Capsicum sp. : " Various sorts of Capsicum " are cultivated at Grand 

 Hasa according to Vogel. They belong evidently to C.frutescens t 

 L., an originally American species, which is cultivated in 

 numerous varieties throughout the tropics. The red or yellow 

 fruits, " Chillies," yield the well-known " Cayenne Pepper." 



SCROPHULARIACE^ 



Scoparia dulcis, L. : a much-branched somewhat stiff weed, with 

 lanceolate dentate leaves in whorls of 3 and very small white 

 4-fid flowers solitary or in pairs and on capillary pedicels ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte \ ; Grand Basa, Vogel> 47 ! 



Lindernia diffusa, Wettst. : a small creeping marsh herb with opposite 

 roundish leaves and small axillary white 2-lipped flowers ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Alectra communis, HcmsL : a species which has long been confused 

 with A. melampyroideSi Benth., from which it differs in having 

 distinctly stalked spreading leaves and bracts longer than the 

 flowers. A coarse herb parasitic on the roots of other plants. 

 Leaves small, opposite or alternate in the inflorescence ; 

 flowers small in crowded spikes ; corolla not much longer 

 than the calyx, yellow, veined with red or brown, shrivelling 

 and twisting soon after expansion and persistent around the 

 ripe seed-vessel ; Kakatown, Whyte \ 



BIGNONIACE^: 



Newbouldia laevis, Scon. : a pinnate-leaved shrub or tree with dense 

 Ix.rt panicles of showy pink flowers resembling a Foxglove, 



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