Liberia *> 



annual with numerous usually short-peduncled axillary globose 

 very compact heads of small whitish flowers, the calyx -J in. 

 long with spinescent teeth; Kakatovvn, Whytc \ 



H. atrorubens, Poit. : a procumbent or ascending pubescent weed 

 with pcduncled globose heads of small whitish 2-lipped 

 flowers, the calyx J- in. long with bristle-like teeth ; Kakatown, 

 \\'Jiytc\ 



H. suaveolens, Poit. : a much-branched and strong-scented annual 

 with few-flowered axillary peduncled cymes of small whitish 

 2-lipped flowers, J in. long, a native of Tropical America, 

 naturalised in many parts of the Old World ; Monrovia, 

 Whyte\ 



Leonotis pallida, Betith : an annual hairy herb with ovate, crenate 

 leaves and dense globular axillary whorls of pale yellow 

 tomentosc flowers, I in. long, with spinescent bracts and calyx 

 teeth ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 36 ! 



L. nepetaefolium, R. Br. : a coarse pubescent weed with 2 4 distant 

 very dense globular whorls of scarlet or orange-coloured flowers 

 (of the shape of those of a dead-nettle) and spinescent calyx 

 teeth ; Kakatown, Wliyte \ 



AMARANTACE^; 



Celosia laxa, Sebum : a climbing herb with compact compound spikes 



of greenish white scarious flowers ; Monrovia, Whyte ; Grand 



Basa, Vogel, 82 ! 

 Amarantus spinosa, L. : a spiny much-branched weed with panicles 



of long flexuous continuous or interrupted spikes of clustered 



small green flowers ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 

 Cyathula prostrata, />/. : a weed with stems ascending to i 3 ft. 



from a creeping base, opposite leaves and slender spikes of 



ultimately rcflcxed sessile hook-spined clusters of small greenish 



flowers ; Kakatown, Whytc ! 



Alternanthera achyranthoides, J'orsk. ; a decumbent herb with small 

 ilc axillary clusters of minute white scarious flowers ; Cape 



Pa'mas, Vogel\ 



POLYGONAC1 I 

 Brunnichia africana, //VAv. : a glabrous shrub, climbing high and far, 



with bifid terminal tendrils, long very loose racemes of solitary or 



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