Liberia 



CANNACE^: 



Canna indica, /.. : a herb with large leaves from a creeping rhizome, 

 panicled very showy crimson or yellow flowers and muricatc 

 capsules, a native of America, frequently cultivated, and 

 naturalised in some places in tropical Africa ; Kakatown, \\'liytc\ 



MUSACK.K 



Musa paradisiaca, L. : the " Banana " and " Plantain," cultivated in 

 Liberia, but nothing is known as to the varieties grown there. 



AMARYLLIDACK K 



Crinum natans, Baker : a bulbous aquatic herb with submersed long 

 strap-like leaves and umbels of large white or pinkish flowers 

 with a slender tube, \ ft- l n g anc ^ usually narrow lobes, 3 in. 

 long; in gently running streams, Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino 

 Basin, \Vliytc ! 



Haemantlms mannii, Raker : a bulbous herb with a tuft of 5 6 elliptic 

 acute short-peduncled leaves and long-pcduncled umbels of bright 

 red flowers, the inflorescences on separate stems and appearing 

 after the withering of the leaves ; Liberia, without precise 

 localities, Carder. 



H. multiflorus, Martyn : similar to the preceding species, but with 

 usually larger leaves and much more copious flowers, their tubes 

 being twice as long as the lobes ; common in forests about 70 

 miles up St. Paul's River, Reynolds \ ; Sino Basin, \\'livtc \ 



*H. longitubus, C. II. H r rig/if : similar to .//. i/iii/fijlonis, but the 

 (lower-tube as long as the lobes (over I in.) ; Sino Basin, 

 Whyte\ 



Hymenocallis littoralis, Salisb. : a bulbous herb with long rather thick 

 linear leaves and long-pcduncled heads of large white flowers, 

 having a slender tube, to 6 in. long, narrow segments 4 in. long, 

 and a wide funnel-shaped corona I in. long ; a shore plant, 

 Sino, \\'hytc ! 



DIOSCOREACE 



Bioscorea prehensilis, licnt/i : a diu-cious glabrous slender twining 

 shrub with elliptic-rotundate 5-ncrvcd firm opposite leaves and 



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