Liberia * 



A. scandens, Hook. : a straggling shrub with leaves up to 7 in. by 3 in. 

 and terminal compound glandular inflorescences of pale mauve 

 or white rather small flowers, with a tube in. long and much 

 inflated in the upper part ; Kakatown, \Vhytc ! 



A. vogeliana, ttcnth. : a straggling undershrub with leaves up to J\ in. 

 by 2.! in., and terminal compound loose inflorescences of pale 

 purple or white flowers with a long (2 in.) slender corolla tube ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Justicia galeopsis, T. A niters, ex C. B. Clarke: a straggling herb 

 with distant leaves, up to 3^ in. by | I in., and small purple 

 or yellow 2-lipped flowers, over -A- in. in length, solitary or 

 2 3 in the leaf axils ; Monrovia and Kakatown, WJiyte ! 



J. laxa, T. Anders.-, a herb or undershrub greyish tomentose in the 

 young parts, with leaves 9 in. by 4 in. and large loose spreading 

 panicles of greenish 2-lipped flowers, \ f in. long ; Monrovia, 

 \Vhytc\\ Kakatown, Wliyte\ 



J. anselliana, T. Anders. : a nearly glabrous herb with distant narrow 

 leaves and small (] in.) white flowers in 2 8-flowered cymes; 

 Cape Palmas, Ansell\ 



Rhinacanthus communis, Nees. : a rambling herb with loosely ovate 

 to lanceolate leaves and panicled clusters of slender white 

 2-lippcd flowers, about i in. long, the upper lip linear, the 

 lower broad 3-lobed ; Kakatown, WJiyte\ 



VERBENACE^E 



Stachytarpheta indica, Wahl. : a herb, 2 3 ft. high, with opposite, 

 elliptic to spatulate crenate glabrous leaves and long, rigid, 

 slender dense spikes of small blue or white flowers, seated in 

 small excavations of the rhachis ; corolla with a slender tube 

 and an oblique 5-lobed limb. A decoction of the leaves is 

 used by the natives as a purgative or febrifuge ; common in 

 the coast-region, //. //. Johnston \ This is widely spread 

 throughout the tropics of the Old World and is more or less 

 a weed. 



Lantana camara, I.. : a shrubby weed with globose heads of small 

 flowers, the outer red, the inner yellowish to white, a native 

 of Tropical America, elsewhere naturalised and occasionally 

 a very troublesome weed ; Monrovia, Whyte \ 



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