Liberia <- 



slender corolla tube (ij in. long) and a one-sided 5-fid limb; 

 Kakatown, Whytc\ This is, according to Dr. Easmon, used 

 on the Gold Coast for poisoning fish. 



Whitfieldia subviridis, C. B. Clarke \ a tall shrub with elliptic leaves, 

 up to 10 in. by 4 in. and showy panicles of large white flowers 

 (petaloid calyx I ij in., corolla tube up to 2 in. long, lobes 

 narrow and long) ; Monrovia, Whyte \ 



W. lateritia, Hook. : a shrub similar to the preceding, but with terminal 

 downy racemes of red flowers, i in. long ; Kakatown, Whytc ! 



*W. colorata, C. B Clarke (sp. nov.) : a glabrous shrub with terminal 

 dense, short, very handsome brilliantly coloured panicles 

 (bracteoles : in. long, brick red ; corolla I in. long, paler with 

 purple tips) ; Kakatown, Whyte \ 



*W. latiflos, C. B. Clarke (sp. nov.) : a glabrous shrub with terminal 

 dense spikelike one-sided panicles of red (or purple ?) flowers ; 

 Kakatown, Whytc \ 



*Lankasteria brevior, C. B. Clarke : a herb with small spikes of pure 

 white flowers (slender tube, in. long, lobes 5, almost equal, 

 oblique) supported by rigid glossy bracts ; Monrovia and 

 Kakatown, Whyte \ 



Phaylopsis falcisepala, C. B. Clarke \ a decumbent or sub-erect shrublet 

 with the leaves of each pair more or less unequal and dense 

 cylinclric or ovoid spikes of white or purplish corollas, in. long. 

 2-lipped with 5 almost equal lobes ; Kakatown, Whytc \ 



Acanthus montanus, T. Anders. : a small shrub with pinnately lobed 

 leaves with spinous teeth, spinous bracts, bracteoles, and calyx 

 segments and dense glabrous spikes of pink I -lipped flowers, 

 almost 2 in. long ; Kakatown, Whytc \ 



*Sclerochiton vogelii, I<\ And. : a small undcrshrub with entire elliptic 

 leaves and terminal clusters of white flowers with rigid bracts, 

 sepals drawn out into long fine points and over I in. long and 

 dorsally split corollas with the 5 lobes on one side, the whole 

 corolla i in. long ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 54 ! ; Anscll\ 



Asystasia coromandeliana, Nees. : a herb with ovate entire leaves, 3 in. 

 by i in., and one-sided racemes (often gathered in panicles) 

 of white, creamy or purplish flowers with a tube J- in. long, an 

 inflated throat and a 5-fid hardly 2-lipped limb ; Monrovia, 

 Whytc \\ Kakatown, \\7iytc\\ Grand Basa, ]'<><'/, 87 !; Cape 

 Palmas, Vogel, 56 ! 



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