850 Mr G. Don’s Account of new or rare Plants 
This shrub is nearly related to the preceding. It is climbing 
and smooth. The leaves are opposite, pointed, entire. The 
petiols are short. The panicles dichotomous, crowded, many- 
flowered, terminal or lateral. Flowers orange-coloured. Fila- 
ments yellow, anthers bluish. This plant grows on the moun- 
tains of Sierra Leone. 
5. C. multiflorum, ; assurgens, glabrum ; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis, interne rugosis, longe petiolatis ; panicula confertiflora termi- 
nali. 
Hab. In Sierra Leone monte, Leicester Mountain Anglice dicto. 
Flores parvi, albi. Frutex 12 pedalis. 
C. multiflorum is rather an upright plant. The leaves are 
rather rugose, smooth, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, entire, upon 
long petiols. The panicles are many-flowered, crowded, termi- 
nal. The flowers are small and white. This shrub grows on 
Leicester Mountain, and no where else have I seen it. 
GOMPHIA. Schreb. Gen. 
1. G. reticulata *; foliis lanceolatis oblongis glabris serratis acutis reticulatis, 
breve petiolatis ; panicula diffusa, terminali. 
Hab. In locis depressis ubique circa Sierra Leone. 
Frutex 3 vel 4 pedalis, ramosa. Corolla lutea. 
The Gomphia reticulata is very common in the low lands, 
and also in the mountains, of Sierra Leone. It is a small 
branching shrub, about 3 or 4 feet high. The leaves are ob- 
long-lanceolate, pointed, smooth, at the margin serrated, upon 
short petiols, the veins reticulated. The flowers are yellow, and in 
terminal, spreading, branching panicles ; the peduncles are short, 
and often three together. This plant has also been found plen- 
tifully in the Kingdoms of Oware and Benin, by the Baron de 
Beauvois, who has given an excellent figure of it in his Flore 
(T Oware et Benin. 
2. G. congesta ; foliis oblongis obtusis, sequaliter serratis, breve petiolatis ; 
panicula terminali, diffusa, confertiflora. 
Hab. In locis depressis circa Sierra Leone. 
Frutex 3 vel 4 pedalis, ramosa. Corolla lutea. 
This shrub is nearly related to the preceding, but differs from 
it in having the leaves oblong-obtuse, and the flowers more 
* Beauvois in the Flore cTOivare. 
