^ The Liberian Flora 



spikelets, ^V in- long ; about 70 miles up the St. Paul's River, 

 Reynolds ! 



P. chaetophorum, Roeiit. and Scliult. : an elegant grass with much- 

 divided loose panicles of oblique obovate dark spikelets, about 

 y^ in. long, the long capillary branches and pedicels of the 

 panicle bearing very long fine scattered hairs ; Kakatown, 

 IV/ijU ! 



P. brevifolivim, L. : a much-branched weak grass with short broad 

 leaves and very lax finely divided panicles of oblong spikelets 

 up to yY in- long ; Kakatown, Wliyte ! 



Oplismenus africanus, Beauv. : a somewhat weak grass with distant 

 one-sided fascicles of short spikes having stiff awns, green 

 below and purplish at the blunt tips ; Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Setaria sulcata, Raddi: a perennial grass, up to 8 ft. high, with 

 large leaves (up to 2 ft. by 2 in. or more and folded fan- 

 fashion) and rather loose panicles, i — 2 ft. long, of ovoid 

 spikelets, \ in. long, with more or less numerous bristles among 

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



Pennisetum purpureum, Schuvi. and Tliomi. : a coarse grass up to 

 15 feet high, with stiff cylindric very dense bristly spikes, 3 — 

 12 in. by i in., of yellowish green to blackish purple spikelets ; 

 Kakatown, Whyte ! 



P. parviflorum, Trin. : a tall branched grass up to 6 ft. high with 

 flexuous slender cylindric spikes, 3 — 6 in. by \ in., of yellowish 

 or purplish spikelets, with involucres of soft bristles ; Grand 

 Basa, Vogel, 93 ! 



Eleusine indica, Gaertn. : a weedy grass with more or less digitate 

 stiff one-sided spikes of crowded greenish spikelets ^ in. long ; 

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



Centotheca lappacea, Desv. : a perennial grass with a loose panicle 

 of green several-flowered spikelets, ^ — I in. long, and often 

 armed with stout reversed bristles ; Kakatown, JV/iyle ! ; Cape 

 Palinas, Vogel \ 



Eragrostis tremula, Hochst. : a graceful annual grass, i — 2 ft. high, 

 with large very loose panicles of pale green or purplish 10 — 40 

 flowered spikelets, often nodding on capillary pedicels ; Basa 

 Cove, Ansell\ 



E. sclerantha, Nees.i))-. in woods near Monrovia, Nauniann. — The 

 determination of this grass, which I have not seen, is certainly 



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