-^ The Liberian Flora 



with thin leaves and small flowers having deep blue-violet sepals 

 and white petals ; was collected in the Sino Basin by Whyte. 



CRUCIFER^ 



Brassica campestris, L. : a near ally of the Cabbage, cultivated 

 or an escape from cultivation, Kakatown, JF//j/tc\ — Several 

 varieties are in cultivation in temperate countries either for the 

 production of oil from seeds (colza) or as vegetables (I'.g: the 

 Swedish turnips). 



CAPPARIDACE.E 



Cleome ciliata, Schunt. and TJiouu. : a sparsely hairy weed with mostly 

 3-foliate leaves, white or purplish tetramerous flowers and 

 linear pods, i — 2^ in. long; Monrovia, JJ7/y^c'\; Grand Basa, 

 J^ogei, 34 ! ; Sino Basin, ]]7iyte ! 



Ritchiea fragrans, R. Br. : a usually climbing glabrous shrub with 

 3-foliolate firm leaves and long-pedicelled large greenish white 

 flowers in short corymbs, the petals very variable in width and 

 number, usually very narrow, up to over 2 in. long ; Monrovia, 

 ]V/iytc\ 



Euadenia eminens, Hook. f. : a glabrous shrub with 3-foliolatc mem- 

 branous leaves and yellowish flowers in corymbs (8 — 10 in, in 

 diameter), with 4 petals, of which 2 are lanceolate, long-clawed, 

 up to 4 in. long, the other 2 small or absent ; Kakatown and 

 Sino Basin, WJiyte ! 



violace.e: 



*Alsodeia prasina, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with pale green serrate 

 oblong to lanceolate thinly coriaceous leaves, up to 8 in. by 

 3 in., and panicles (to l\ in. long) of small flowers {\ in. long) 

 with prominently striate sepals ; near Monrovia, Whyte ! 



*A. liberica, Stapf {syn. Rinorea liberica, Engl.) : a low shrub with 

 lanceolate very shortly petioled leaves and short terminal panicles 

 of small yellowish brown flowers \ in. long ; in primary forest 

 along the banks of the Cestos River near the sea, Diukhige, 

 193 1 !; near Grand B^iss., Diiiklage, 1944!; Sino Basin, ]\7iyte\ 



*A. johnstonii, Stapf: a glabrous shrub with bright green serrulate 

 more or less lanceolate thinly coriaceous leaves, up to 7 in. 

 by 2 — 2| in., and dense terminal panicles (i — 3 in. long) of 

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