-♦ The Liberian Flora 



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

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



CRUCIFER^ 



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

 or an escape from cultivation, Kakatown, Whyte ! — Several 

 varieties are in cultivation in temperate countries either for the 

 production of oil from seeds (colza) or as vegetables {e.g. the 

 Swedish turnips). 



CAPPARIDACEyE 



Cleome ciliata, Sclinm. and Thonn. : a sparsely hairy weed with mostly 

 3-foliate leaves, white or purplish tetramerous flowers and 

 linear pods, i— 2i in. long; Monrovia, Whyte\\ Grand Basa, 

 Vogel, 34 ! ; Sino Basin, Wliyte ! 



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, 

 IV/iyte ! 



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, Whyte ! 



VIOLACE^: 



*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, Wliyte ! 



*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, Dinklage, 

 1931 !; near Grand V>a?,2^, Dinklage, 1944!; Sino Basin, Whytel 



•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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