1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 37 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH COLONY AND 
PROTECTORATE OF SIERRA LEONE 
Basic Legislation 
The Destructive Pests Ordinance of February 19, 1912, revision of 1925. 
This ordinance empowers the Governor in council from time to time to 
make such orders as may appear expedient for preventing the introduction 
into the Colony of any insect, fungus, or other pest destructive to agricultural 
or horticultural crops or to trees or plants, and for preventing the spreading 
in the Colony of any such insect, fungus, or other pest. 
IMPORTATION PROHIBITED 
Trees, plants, soil, leaves, branches, stems, roots, seeds, or any other part of 
a tree or plant, or any packages or packing materials which have contained 
or been in contact with any such trees, plants, or parts thereof: Importation into 
the Colony prohibited from Central America, South America, and the West 
Indies, to prevent the introduction of the witches'-broom disease, Marasmius 
perniciosus Stahel (Order in Council No. 12, Sept. 29, 1930). 
IMPORTATION RESTRICTED 
Cocoa trees or plants (Theobroma cacao L.), or the leaves, branches, stems, 
roots, seeds, or fruit of any such trees or plants : May be imported only through 
the port of Freetown and such other ports as may be approved by the Governor, 
and only subject to inspection by the Director of Agriculture. If such plants 
or parts thereof are deemed likely to introduce any insect, fungus, or pest, 
the director may order their immediate destruction, or their disinfection under 
his supervision at the expense of the importer. (Order constituting the schedule 
to the Destructive Pests Ordinance of 1924. ) 
Citrus plants, including the leaves, branches, stems, roots, seeds, or fruits : 
May be imported only under the conditions prescribed for Theobroma cacao, in 
order to prevent the introduction of — 
Diseases : 
Bacillus citrimaculans Doidge, bacterial spot (South Africa). 
Bacterium citri (Hasse) Doidge, citrus canker. 
Bacterium syringae (Van Hall) E. F. Smiths B. citrarefaciens H. A. Lee, 
blast. 
Collet otrichum gloeosporioides Penz. and withertip. 
Gloeosporium limetticolum (R. F. Clausen). 
Oidium spp., mildew. 
Pests : 
Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby, citrus blackfly. 
Aleurothrixus floccosus Mask. 
(Aonidiella) Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask., California red scale. 
Ceratltis eapitata Wied., Mediterranean fruit fly. 
Chrysomphalus (ficus) aonidum L., Florida red scale. 
Coccus pseudomagnoliarum Kuw., coccid. 
Dialeurodes citri Riley and Howard, citrus whitefly. 
Dialeurodes citrifolii Morg., cloudy-winged whitefly. 
Icerya purchasi Mask., cottony-cushion scale. 
leery a seychellarum Westw., coccid. 
Parlatoria ziziphus Lucas, coccid. 
Phyllocoptes oleivorus Ashm., citrus rust mite. 
Pseudococcus adonldum L., long-tailed mealybug. 
Tylenchus semi-penetrans Cobb, eelworm or nematode. 
(Order in Council No. 5, Feb. 9, 1929.) 
Banana plants, including the leaves, branches, steins, roots, seeds, or fruits: 
May be imported only under the conditions prescribed for Theobroma cacao, in 
order to prevent the introduction of "bunchy top"; Panama disease, Fusarium 
cubense E F. Smith, strains other than those present in Sierra Leone. 
