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sulcs ; Kakatoun, \Vliytc\\ Grand Basa, / V <;<-/, 40 !; Sino Basin, 

 ir/rA'!; Cape Palmas, A use/I \ 



A. ovato-oblongum, Aw/r ( . : a trailing herb with very slender loose 

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

 sules ; Cape Talmas, Ansc//\ 



RAPATACKK 



*Maschalocephalus dinklagei, /Y4 r - an d K. Schum. : a perennial herb 

 with basal tufts of long firm ensiform leaves (including the 

 sheaths to 20 in. high by over I in.) with sessile axillary heads 

 of yellowish white tubular very slender flowers (tube \\ in. } 

 lobes | in. long) and small triangled capsules ; in marshy 

 very shady places in primary forest near Fishtown, Dinklage, 

 2088 ! 



PALM.I: 



Phoenix reclinata, Jacq. : stem 34 ft. high, leaves 3 5 ft. long 

 with 50 or more rigid lanceolate pungent pinnae (i ft. long 

 by i in.) ; female inflorescences peduncled, branched, about 2 

 ft. long, fruits resembling a small date ; Monrovia and Cape 

 Palrnas, according to Vogel. Sometimes called "wild date." 



Calamus barter!, Bell, ex Drude : a tall climber with very slender 

 steins and leaves having lanceolate oblong pinnae (up to 8 in. 

 by | in.), armed with very fine pungent spines on the rachis, 

 the margins and primary nerves ; Kakatown, Whyte ! The 

 rattan palm. 



Raphia vinifera, ttcnuv. : a palm with a middle-sized stem bearing 

 an elegant tuft of pinnatisect leaves, 6 8 ft. long; pinna' 

 spinulous ; fruits oblong-ellipsoid, about 3 in. long, covered with 

 smooth hard scales in 89 rows. The stems of this palm, 

 which is known as " bamboo palm " to British colonists, are used 

 for building, the leaves for thatching, the bast for fibre, and the 

 sap of the trunk for making a sort of wine. This is the 

 "piassava" palm of the Americo-Liberians and produces the 

 fibre known by that name; in the coast region, S/r //. II. 

 Joluistoti \ 



Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum, \Vcirb. (syn. B. .T-thiopum, Mart.}\ a 

 palm, 60 80 ft. high, with a straight stem thickening more or 

 less from the middle upwards, flabellate leaves, 5 12 ft. long 

 and divided almost to the middle into ensiform segments, and 



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