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-♦) The Liberian Flora 



Pycreus polystachyus, Beativ. : i — 2\ ft. high, with fibrous roots 

 and more or less compound umbelled spikes of lo — 50 per- 

 manently erect brownish spikelets, | in. by ^\ in. ; Cape 

 Palmas, AnselL\ 



Cyperus haspan, L. : with stems 4 — 28 in. long, distant on long 

 creeping rhizomes and with usually compound or decompound 

 umbels (sometimes overtopped by bracts) of digitate clusters 

 of 2 — 6 compressed spikelets, ^ — | in. by ^\ — [tV in. ; in the 

 town of Monrovia, Naumann. 



C. tenax, Boeck. : with trigonous stems, 4 — 16 in. long, and usually 

 simple umbels of upwards of 7 spikes of 3 — 16 digitate 

 dark chestnut-coloured spikelets, i— ^ in. by yV in.; the umbels 

 overtopped by leaf-like bracts, Monrovia, Naumann. 



C. sphacelatus, Rottb. : an annual with slender tufted stems, 6 — 24 

 in. long, and simple or compound umbels of spikes of 5 — 12 

 speckled spikelets, straw-coloured and | in. long, the umbels 

 often over-topped by the lowest bract ; Grand Basa, Ansell\ 



C. zollingeri, Steud.: with trigonous slender stems, i — 2 ft. high, 

 and irregular straggling or much-contracted umbels of loose 

 spikes of 3 — 9 yellowish green spikelets, i in. by ^ in., the 

 umbels when contracted much overtopped by the leaf-like 

 bracts ; Monrovia, Naumann. 



Mariscus umbellatus, Vahl. : with stems i — 2i ft. long, thickened 

 at the base and trigonous at the top, and with simple 5 — 12- 

 rayed umbels of solitary cylindric spikes of very numerous 

 straw-coloured spikelets, spreading rectangularly when ripe, 

 the umbels supported by 5 — 10 leaf-like bracts ; Monrovia, 

 Naumann, Whyte ! ; Kakatown and Sino Basin, Wliyte ! 



M. rufus, //. B. K. : with robust stems i — 4 ft. long, trigonous at the 

 top, and umbels of numerous cylindric congested spikes of 

 spreading or reflexed reddish brown spikelets, 4 in. by y^ in., 

 the umbels supported by 4 — 7 bracts ; Monrovia, Naumann. 



Eleocharis capitata, R. Br. : a leafless annual with tufted stems, 2 to 

 over 12 in. high, with a solitary terminal lanceolate dense dull 

 greenish red spikelet, ^ — | in. long ; Cape Palmas, Vogel. 



*E. naumanniana, Boeck. : a very slender flaccid olive-coloured water- 

 plant, prolifcrously branched, li ft. long, with solitary very 

 slender i -flowered spikelets, ^ in. long; Monrovia, Naumann. 



Fimbristylis diphylla, Vahl. : an annual with tufted stems, 7 — 28 in. 



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