Liberia ^ 



Ics.s convolute green spathcs, i^ in. long, with a shortly exserted 

 spadix ; Sine Basin, U7/r/i'l 

 Cyrtosperma senegalense, E;/i^/. -. a herb with a large tuber, sagittate 

 basal leaves (including the basal lobes to over 2h ft. long), 

 and stout prickly peduncles, overtopping the leaves and bearing 

 lanceolate yellowish green and dark-red-striped spathes (i ft. 

 or more long), with a dark violet spadix (2^ — 7 in. long; ; Grand 

 Basa, Vogt'i, 94 ! 



XYRIDACE.E 



Xyris indica, A. (?) : a perennial herb with a basal tuft of narrow 

 strap-shaped spongy i — 2 ft. long leaves and a peduncled head 

 of small yellow flowers with dark red-brown bracts ; in swamps 

 near Monrovia, N(XHma)i)i. — I suspect this is not A', indica, which 

 is not known from Africa, but more probabl}' the very similar 

 X. decipiens, N. E. Br. 



ERIOCAULONACE.'^: 



Mesanthemum radicans, Kocruicke : a perennial herb with a tuft of 

 linear leaves (3 — 6 in. by ^ — h in.) and long-peduncled flat 

 compact heads (h in. across) of small white flowers with an 

 involucre of numerous downy obtuse scales ; in marshes, Kaka- 

 town, IVhytel ; Grand Basa, ^-i;/.sv//! 



CYPERACE/E 



Kyllinga erecta, Sch/iui. and TJionti. : a fev/ inches high, with a 

 creeping rhizome and solitary terminal ovoid spikes, commonly 

 showing a golden tinge and supported by 3 — 4 bracts, i — 3 in. 

 long; Basa Cove, Anse/i\ 



K. peruviana, Lam.: 12 — 20 in. high, with a densel}' scaly rhizome 

 and solitary terminal globose spike supported by 3 bracts 

 up to I in. long ; Monrovia, NauiiuDDi ; Grand Basa, AiiscllX 



K. pumila, Mich.: 4 — 18 in. high, with fibrous roots and terminal 

 heads of 3 — i greenish white spikes with 2 — 4 leaf-like bracts, 

 the lowest 2 — 6 in. long ; Monrovia, Nauniann, 



K. cylindrica, Nees. : 6 — 18 in. high, with a short or no rhizome, 

 leaves often longer than the stem, heads of 3 — i white or 

 brownish spikes (middle spike cylindric) and 3 — 4 leaf-like 

 bracts, the lowest i — 6 in. long; Basa Cove, Anscll\ 



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