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-♦) The Liberian Flora 



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

 clustered brown spikelets ^ in. long ; Monrovia, Nauinann ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Hypolytrum nemorum, Spieng.: a perennial with leafy stems, 15 — 30 

 in. high, leaves i — 2 ft. by | — 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, Whyte ! 



H. africanum, Nees. : 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 cylindric brown spikes, ^ in. 

 long ; Sino Basin, W/iyie ! 



Scleria spieiformis, Benth. : a perennial i — 2 ft. high with 3-winged 

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

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

 fruits ; Grand Basa, Vogel\ 



S. ovuligera, Nees. : a hairy perennial, i — 2 ft. high, with triquetrous 

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

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

 fruits; Monrovia, N au numn ; Grs.nd Basa, Vogel,6o\ ; Ansell\; 

 Sino Basin, Wliyte ! 



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

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

 pyramidal panicles (i — \\ in. by i in.) of che.stnut-brown 

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

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

 Grand Basa, Dinklage, 20I0 ! 



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

 Icaf-sheaths, rough-edged blades, i — 2 ft. by J — 1^ 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, Wliyte ! ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 59 ! ; Sino Basin, 

 Wliyte ! 



GRAMINE^ 



Zea mays, A. : 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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