materialia Herbarii Kewensis descriptae et in Sir Harry Johnston’s,,Liberia“. 355 
Liberia: Whyte! 
This yields abundant rubber, according to Whyte. 
9. Ficus Johnstonii Stapf, 1. c., p. 652, pl. 265. /Urticaceae] 
A perfectly glabrous tree, allied to F. calyptrata Schum. and Thonn. 
with short stout terminal buds, stout branchlets, ovate-elliptie sub- 
acuminate, at the base almost truncate loosely and finely reticulated 
leaves (8 in. by 4 in.) having 11—13 side nerves (spreading almost at 
a right angle) and borne on petioles 2 in. long, and with the young 
greyish velvety receptacles enelosed in pairs in urn-shaped involucres, 
not quite !/, in. long. 
Liberia, without precise locality (communicated by H. H Johnston!). 
This is also supposed to yield rubber. 
10. Renealmia maculata Stapf, l. c., p. 656. [Zingiberaceae.] 
A perennial herb with distinct leaf- and flower-stems; leaf-stems, 
including the blades, about 1 ft. high, with about 4 elliptic or lanceolate- 
elliptic shortly acuminate purple-blotched petioled leaves, 7 9 in. by 2 
to almost 4 in., flower-stems rather slender, 3—5 in. high, representing 
a shortly peduncled panicle with short few-flowered branches, supported 
by more or less persistent and adpressed bracts with spreading pedicles, 
in the mature state !/,—?/|, in. long, and oblong-ellipsoid capsules, 
1/,—?/, in. by !/4 in., containing numerous seeds with yellow arils. 
Liberia: Kakatown, Whyte! 
This is similar to R. africana Benth., but smaller, with more and 
permanently adpressed bracts and more oblong fruits. 
11. Clinogyne arcta Stapf, l. c., p. 657. [Marantaceae.] 
A perennial tall herb, similar to C. flecuosa K. Schum.; blades ovate- 
oblong, acuminate, the upper 6 in. by 2—2!/, in., on short thickened 
petioles, the lower with much longer petioles of which only the upper 
end is thickened; racemes slender flexuous, compound, solitary or in 
panieles of 2—4, to more than 6 in. long; bracts up to 8 or more and 
over 1 in. long, persistent and permanently adpressed branchlets of the 
raceme 2-flowered and about 1'}, in. long, flowers purplish, not quite 
1} in long, with villous ovaries. 
Liberia: Sino Basin and Kakatown, Whyte! 
