^ The Liberian Flora 



and long panicles of corymbs (2 — 5 in. in diameter) of numerous 

 clustered brown spikclcts .^ in. long ; Monrovia, Nauuiami ; 

 Kakatown, WJiytc ! 



Hypolytrum nemorum, S/^iciio-.: a perennial with leafy stems, 15 — 30 

 in. high, leaves i — 2 ft. by 5 — i in., and panicles (4 — 6 in. long 

 and broad) of 50 — 150 solitary or clustered spikes of 10—20 

 spikelets, \ in. long; Kakatown and Sino Basin, WJiytc\ 



H. africanum, Xccs. : a perennial with leafless stems, i — 2 ft. long, 

 from the axils of the crowded basal leaves, 16 — 30 in. by 5 in., 

 and with corymbs of 8 — 80 slender c>'lindric brown spikes, ^ in. 

 lung ; Sino Basin, JlV/r/c ! 



Scleria spiciformis, BciitJi. : a perennial i — 2 ft. high with 3-winged 

 leaf-shcaths, spike-like oblong axillary panicles of dusky brown 

 spikelets, ] in. long, and hard white smooth almost globose 

 fruits ; Grand Basa, ]\>gci\ 



S. ovuligera, N'ees. : a hairy perennial, i — 2 ft. high, with triquetrous 

 leaf-sheath, 3 — 4 remote pyramidal panicles of almost glabrous 

 spikelets, \ in. long, and hard white smooth almost globose 

 fruits ; Monrovia, Nainjiami ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 60! ; Ansell\\ 

 Sino Basin, ]Vltytc I 



S. barteri, Bocck. : a rambling or climbing perennial, up to 20 ft. 

 long, with rough-edged leaves, 8 in. by ^ in., remote axillary 

 pyramidal panicles (i — ih in. by i in.j of chestnut-brown 

 spikelets, i in. long, and white or brown to purple shining 

 fruits ; about 70 miles up the St. Paul's River, Reynolds ! ; 

 Grand Basa, Dinklage, 2010! 



S. vogelii, C. B. Clarke : with stems I— 6 ft. high, unequally 3-winged 

 leaf-sheaths, rough-edged blades, i — 2 ft. by \ — i^ in., axillary 

 panicles 2 — 3 in. long (running into a terminal compound 

 panicle) of pale spikelets \ in. long, and shining white or brown 

 fruits ; Kakatown, ]Vliyte\ ; Grand Basa, ]\>gel, 59! ; Sino Basin, 

 ]Vhyte\ 



GRAMINE.fi 



Zea mays, L. : the well-known " Maize " or " Indian Corn," a cereal 

 of American origin, cultivated in Liberia, according to Vogel. 



Coix lacryma, L. : a branched soft-leaved grass with ivory-like more 

 or less globose ultimately hard receptacles with an orifice at 

 the top from which the short male spikelets and the stigmas 



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