Liberia *- 



less convolute green spathes, if in. long, with a shortly exserted 

 spadix; Sino Basin, J/7/r/v! 



Cyrtosperma senegalense, Engl. : a herb with a large tuber, sagittate 

 basal leaves (including the basal lobes to over 2j ft. long), 

 and stout prickly peduncles, overtopping the leaves and bearing 

 lanceolate yellowish green and dark-red-stripcd spathes (i ft. 

 or more long), with a dark violet spadix (2j 7 in. long) ; Grand 

 Basa, V T ogcl, 94 ! 



XYRIDACE^ 



Xyris indica, L. (?) : a perennial herb with a basal tuft of narrow 

 strap-shaped spongy I 2 ft. long leaves and a peduncled head 

 of small yellow flowers with dark red-brown bracts ; in swamps 

 near Monrovia, Naumann. I suspect this is not X. indica, which 

 is not known from Africa, but more probably the very similar 

 X. dccipiens, N. E. Br. 



ERIOCAULONACE^: 



Mesanthemum radicans, Koernicke : a perennial herb with a tuft of 

 linear leaves (3 6 in. by J J in.) and long-peduncled flat 

 compact heads (i in. across) of small white flowers with an 

 involucre of numerous downy obtuse scales ; in marshes, Kaka- 

 town, \VJiy te\ ; Grand Basa, Ansell\ 



CYPERACE/K 



Kyllinga erecta, Sc/uim. and Thonn. : .a few inches high, with a 

 creeping rhizome and solitary terminal ovoid spikes, commonly 

 showing a golden tinge and supported by 3 4 bracts, I 3 in. 

 long; Basa Cove, Ansell\ 



K. peruviana, Lain.: 1220 in. high, with a densely scaly rhizome 

 and solitary terminal globose spike supported by 3 bracts 

 up to i in. long; Monrovia, Naumann ; Grand Basa, Atiscll\ 



K. pumila, Mich.: 418 in. high, with fibrous roots and terminal 

 heads of 3 i greenish white spikes with 2 4 leaf-like bracts, 

 the lowest 2 6 in. long ; Monrovia, Naumann. 



K. cylindrica, Nees. : 6 18 in. high, with a short or no rhizome, 

 leaves often longer than the stem, heads of 3 i white or 

 brownish spikes (middle spike cylindric) and 3 4 leaf-like 

 bracts, the lowest i 6 in. long; Basa Cove, Ansc//\ 



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