"* The Liberian Flora 



numerous fascicled spikes of small malr flowers gathered in often 

 large panicles, solitary axillary long slender spikes of female 

 flowers and deeply 3-lobed capsules ; Kakatown, //7/r/V ! 



LIUACK.-K 



Dracaena surculosa, Until. : a much-branched shrub or tree with 

 opposite or whorled firm oblong parallel-veined leaves and 

 numerous white more or less umbelled flowers ( in. long) 

 and red berries ; Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino River, \\'hytc\ ; 

 Sir H. H. Johnston. 



*D. prolata, C. II. Wright', a shrub (?) with elliptic coriaceous leaves, 

 7 in. by 3 in., and short congested panicles of white flowers, 

 over i in. long ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, \\7tytc ! 



Chlorophytum laxum, R. Br. : a herb with tufted linear membranous 

 leaves and very lax simple or forked racemes of small white 

 or reddish white flowers, i in. long; common near Grand 

 Basa, Vogel, 41 ! 



Gloriosa virescens, Lindl. : a large rambler or climber with leaves 

 ending in long filiform tendrils and handsome large nodding 

 flowers having the petals rcflexed, first yellow then scarlet ; 

 Grand Basa, Vogel } 22! 



COMMELINACE^: 



Palisota thyrsiflora, Kcnth. : a herb, 3 15 ft. high, shaggy in its young 

 parts, with more or less lanceolate leaves and long rather narrow 

 panicles of small white or violet flowers and blue berries ; 

 Monrovia and Kakatown, Wliyte ! ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 67 ! ; 

 Sino Basin, Wliyte ! ; Cape Pal mas, Vogel\ 



Commelina nudiflora, L. : a diffuse often decumbent herb with few- 

 flowered racemes of small brilliantly blue or white flowers ; Sino 

 Basin, Whyte\ 



C. capitata, Bentli. : a struggling or diffuse herb, I 3 ft. high, with 

 (apparently) terminal heads of yellow or white flowers, supported 

 by large folded bracts; Kakatown, Whyte\\ Cape Palmas 

 Vogel, 52! 



Aneilema beninense, Kunth. : a trailing herb with terminal dense 

 panicles of very small blue or white flowers and shining cap- 



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