-+> The Lihcrian Floni 



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, \\'hytc\ 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). 



CAPPARIDACE^E 



Cleorae ciliata, Scfiinn. and TJionn. : a sparsely hairy weed with mostly 

 3-foliate leaves, white or purplish tetramerous flowers and 

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

 Vogel, 34 ! ; Sino Basin, Whyte ! 



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, 

 Whyte\ 



Euadenia eminens, Hook. f. : a glabrous shrub with 3-foliolate 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^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 3j in. long) of small flowers (J in. long) 

 with prominently striate sepals ; near Monrovia, W/iyte ! 



*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 -J in. long ; in primary forest 

 along the banks of the Cestos River near the sea, Dinklage^ 

 1931 !; near Grand Basa, Dinklage, 1944!; Sino Basin, Wkyte\ 



*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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