-^ llie Liberian Flora 



numerous fascicled spikes of small male flowers gathered in often 

 large panicles, solitary axillary long slender spikes of female 

 flowers and deeply 3-lobed capsules ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



LILIACE.E 



Dracaena surculosa, Liiidl. : a much-branched shrub or tree with 

 opposite or whorled firm oblong parallel-veined leaves and 

 numerous white more or less umbelled flowers (| in. long) 

 and red berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino River, Whytel ; 

 Sir H. II. Johiistoi. 



*D. prolata, r. //. Wright: a shrub (?; with elliptic coriaceous leaves, 

 7 in. by 3 in., and short congested panicles of white flowers, 

 over h in. long ; Monrovia and Sino l^asin, \\liytc\ 



Chlorophytum laxum, /\. Br. : a herb with tufted linear membranous 

 lea\"cs and \ery lax simple or forked racemes of small white 

 or reddish white flowers, \ — \ in. long ; common near Grand 

 Basfi, \'ogcl, 41 ! 



Gloriosa virescens, Liiuil. : a large rambler or climber with leaves 

 ending in long filiform tendrils and handsome large nodding 

 flowers having the petals reflexed, first yellow then scarlet ; 

 Grand Basa, Voge/, 22 ! 



COMMELINACE.^^: 



Palisota thyrsiflora, Bcutli. : a herb, 3 — 15 ft. high, shaggy in its young 

 parts, with more or less lanceolate leaves and long rather narrow 

 panicles of small white or violet flowers and blue berries ; 

 Monrovia and Kakatown, ]VJiyte\\ Grand Basa, Voge/, 67 \ ; 

 Sino Basin, ]l7iytc ! ; Cape Palmas, Voge/ 1 



Commelina nudiflora, L. : a diffuse often decumbent herb with few- 

 flowered racemes of small brilliantly blue or white flowers ; Sino 

 Basin, IV/iytel 



C. capitata, Benth. : a struggling or diffuse herb, 1 — 3 ft. high, with 

 (apparently) terminal heads of yellow or white flowers, supported 

 by large folded bracts; Kakatown, \\'/iYtc\\ Cape Palmas, 



yogci-,2\ 



Aneilema beninense, Kniitli. : a trailing herb with terminal dense 

 panicles of very small blue or white flowers and shining cap- 



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