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This article was written during the writer’s stay as FAO instructor of botany at the College of Forestry, University of Liberia, from 1963–1956.

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Van Harten, A.M. Melegueta Pepper. Econ Bot 24, 208–216 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860603

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