Liberia *♦- 



wrong. E. sdcratitha is a South African grass of dry 

 localities. 



Oryza sativa, L. : The " Rice," cultivated in Liberia, according to 

 Vogcl. 



Olyra latifolia, L.: an erect or straggling bamboo-like gras';, 4 — 15 

 ft. high, with netted-veined leaves, 4 — 7 in. by i — 3 in., and 

 panicles of i -flowered unisexual spikelets, the male and 

 female of difTerent shape, the female larger, ovoid, caudate, the 

 " fruit" white and shining ; Kakatown, IV/iyte ! 



Oxytenanthera sp. — a species of Bambusese : a bamboo, possibly in- 

 troduced, but growing wild seemingly in many districts near 

 the coast; Sir H. H. Johnston (from photographs). 



FILICES 



Pteridium aquilinum, Kiu/th : the " Bracken," an almost cosmopolitan 



fern, Liberia, Millen, 200 ! 

 Polypodium phjrmatoides, L. : an epiphytic fern with far-creeping 



rhizome, more or less dissected fleshy coriaceous leaves, up to 



3 ft. long, and immersed sori : Monrovia and Sino Basin, Whyte\ 

 Oleichenia dichotoma, Willd. : a climbing or rambling fern with 



scattered repeatedly dichotomous leaves, often gregarious ; 



Kakatown, IV/iyte ! ; without precise locality, Millen ! 



Platycerium sethiopicum, Hook. : an epiphytic fern, the well-known 



" Stag's-horn." 



LYCOPODIACE.*: 



Lycopodium cemuum, L. : an erect shrublet, much branched and re- 

 sembling a miniature tree with minute subulate leaves and 

 nodding spikes of sporophyllcs at the ends of the branchlets ; 

 Kakatown, YV/iyie ! ; 70 miles up the St. Paul's River, Reynolds ! 



SELAGINELLACE^: 



Selaginella vogelii, Spring. : much branched, to over 2 ft. high, 

 ascending from a creeping rhizome, the tips often growing out 

 into whip-like shoots up to 9 in. long, the whole plant more or 

 less .shining; Sino Basin, W/tyiel 



8. scandens, Spring. : an often very long climber, rooting from the 

 glabrous stems, primary branches simply branched except near 

 the ba.sc, branchlets ending with .spikes (up to f in. long) of 

 sporophyllcs ; Cape Palmas, Sclwenlein ; Sino Basin, ]Vhyte\ 



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