Liberia ■^ 



less convolute green spathes, if in. long, with a shortly exserted 

 spadix ; Sino Basin, Wliyte ! 

 Cyrtospenna senegalense, Engl. : a herb with a large tuber, sagittate 

 basal leaves (including the basal lobes to over 2\ 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, Vogel, 94 ! 



XYRIDACE^ 



Xyris indica, L. (?) : 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, Nauniann. — I suspect this is not X. indica, which 

 is not known from Africa, but more probably the very similar 

 X. decipiens, N. E. Br. 



ERIOCAULONACE^ 



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

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

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

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

 town, Whyte\ ; Grand Basa, Ansell\ 



CYPERACE/E 



Kyllinga erecta, Sclunn. and Tlionn. : .a few inches high, with a 

 creeping rhizome and solitary terminal ovoid spikes, commonly 

 showing a golden tinge and supported by 3 — 4 bracts, 1 — 3 in. 

 long ; Basa Cove, Anselll 



K. peruviana, Lam.: 12 — 20 in. high, with a densely scaly rhizome 

 and solitary terminal globose spike supported by 3 bracts 

 up to I in. long ; Monrovia, Nauviann ; Grand Basa, Ansell\ 



K. pnmila, 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, Naumann. 



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

 leaves often longer than the stem, heads of 3—1 white or 

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

 bracts, the lowest 1 — 6 in. long; Basa Cove, Ansell\ 



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