Mr Go Dons Account of Plants from Sierra Leone. 848 
of April following. Other parts of the western coast of Af- 
rica were also interesting, particularly the island of St Tho- 
mas. The number of rare and splendid plants found in that 
quarter, and remaining yet unpublished, induces me to give de- 
scriptions of some new species belonging to those genera which 
are most likely to arrest attention, either for their beauty, or for 
some particular qualities belonging to them. They are ail of 
them highly deserving of being cultivated in our stoves ; and 
several of them I have been so fortunate as to introduce into this 
country in a living state. I have marked with an asterisk such 
of them as are to be seen growing in the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society at Chiswick. All those enumerated in the following 
pages are new, or now described for the first time ; with the ex- 
ception of Gomphia reticulata , Ochna multiflora and Justicia 
hispida. Besides those here described, many others deserve to 
be noticed for their elegance or for their showy flowers, most of 
which are hitherto unnoticed in botanical works. These may 
form the subject of another communication. 
It may perhaps be interesting, in the mean time, to mention 
the names of a few of the most likely to attract the attention of 
persons visiting the colony. They are as follows: — * Clematis 
grandiflora, De Candol le ; *Cratcevafragrans, Bot.Mag. ; *Ipo- 
mcea splendens , new, like I. panicidata ; * Ipomcea involucrata , 
Beauvois; Banisteria Leona , and a new genus nearly related, 
with alternate leaves -f- ; * Erythrophleum, Afz. the Bed Water, 
or Gregre Tree of the Negroes ; Lor anti ms, two species ; * Lo - 
phira alata , the Scrubby Oak of the colonists, with its long, 
leathery, pale green leaves, and panicles of white flowers, very 
conspicuous ; * Osbeckia grandflora , Afz. herbaceous, and 
roots tuberous, flowers large, blue ; Rondcletia febrifuga , Afz. ; 
* Smeathmannia laevigata and pubescens , Solan, f; Spatliodea 
campanidata and Icevis, Beauv. ; * Tetracera pototoria , Afz. the 
Water-Tree of the colonists ; Gardenia coccinea , new, flowers 
the size of those of Vinca rosea ; Gardenia pulchella, flowers 
white, throat yellow, the size of the preceding, with many 
1* See Mr Brown on the Congo Plants. 
•t See Mr Brown in the Linn . Trans . 
