Liberia *•- 



CANNACE^ 



Canna indioa, L. : a herb with large leaves from a creeping rhizome, 

 paniclcd very showy crimson or yellow flowers and muricate 

 capsules, a native of America, frequently cultivated, and 

 naturalised in some places in tropical Africa ; Kakatown, Whyte\ 



MUSACE.*: 



Musa paradisiaca, L. : the " Banana " and " Plantain," cultivated in 

 Liberia, but nothing is known as to the varieties grown there. 



AMARYLLIDACE--^ 



Crinum natans, Baker : a bulbous aquatic herb with submersed long 

 strap-like leaves and umbels of large white or pinkish flowers 

 with a slender tube, J ft. long, and usually narrow lobes, 3 in. 

 long ; in gently running streams, Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino 

 Basin, ll7ipe\ 



Haemanthus mannii, Baker : a bulbous herb with a tuft of S — 6 elliptic 

 acute short-peduncled leaves and long-peduncled umbels of bright 

 red flowers, the inflorescences on separate stems and appearing 

 after the withering of the leaves ; Liberia, without precise 

 localities, Carder. 



H. multiflorus, Martyn : similar to the preceding species, but with 

 usually larger leaves and much more copious flowers, their tubes 

 being twice as long as the lobes ; common in forests about 70 

 miles up St. Paul's River, Reynolds ! ; Sino Basin, Wliyte ! 



*H. longitubus, C. H. Wright : similar to //. niultiflurus, but the 

 flower-tube as long as the lobes (over i in.) ; Sino Basin, 

 Whyte\ 



Hymenocallis littoralis, Salisb. : a bulbous herb with long rather thick 

 linear leaves and long-peduncled heads of large white flowers, 

 having a slender tube, to 6 in. long, narrow segments 4 in. long, 

 and a wide funnel-shaped corona i in. long ; a shore plant, 

 Sino, Wliyte ! 



DIOSCOREACE^ 



Bioscorea prehensilis, Benth : a dicecious glabrous slender twining 

 shrub with elliptic-rotundate s-nerved firm opposite leaves and 



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