^ The Liberian Hora 



into horticulture, on account of the handsome or strangely shaped 

 eaves. Rhektophyllum mirabile or at any rate a species of 

 Rhektophyllum is frequently met with in the dense forest of 

 Liberia as an epiphyte on trees, up which it grows to a con- 



236. LATER LEAF OF ANCHOMANES ARUM 



siderable height. The leaves are very large, sometimes nearly 

 three feet long, and are remarkable for open slits which 

 gradually appear between the veins. The flower-spathes are a 

 pale yellow-green, or greenish white, with a blackish spadix that 



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