206 CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. 
Ficus capensis, Thunb. Ficus Diss. 13. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700—4000 ft. ; in early fr. June ; n. 434. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa. 
A large tree with edible figs and milky latex. Chindao name, * Muckowana." 
К. 50ВСАТСАКАТА, Warb. § Schweinf. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. хх. (1892) 155. 
Chikambogé Valley, 3000 fr. ; in fr. Sept. ; n. 435. 
Distrib. Tropical East. Africa. 
A very large tree with shady spreading crown and milky latex coagulating 
into a substance like papier-maché. Chindao name, “ Mutowe-towe.” 
Other specimens belonging to this genus are reserved for further 
examination. 
BosquiEA Рновевох, Baill. Adansonia, viii. (1867) 72. 
Maruma forest patch, 3700 ft. ; in fl. Sept. ; n. 687. 
Distrib. Tropical East Africa. 
А large tree up to 80 feet, yielding fairly freely an ochreous-yellow latex. 
MYRIANTHUS ARBOREUS, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 16. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft.; Mt. Pene Forest, 6500-7000 ft.; in fl. 
Sept., Oct., Dec. ; nn. 111, 111 a, 1052. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
A very large tree in Chirinda, but stunted on Mt. Pene. 
FLEURYA CAPENSIS, Wedd. in Ann. Sei. Nat. sér. 4, Bot. i. (1854) 183. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft. ; commonest in damp soil along the upper 
Zona ; in fl, April, in fr. May; nn. 338, 793. 
Distrib. South Africa. 
URERA ОВОУАТА, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 516. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft. ; in fl. Jan. ; n. 1518. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
MYRICACEJE. 
Mynica PrLULIFERA, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. (1894) 43. 
Mt. Pene at 6500 ft. ; in fl. July, in fr. Sept. ; nn. 530, 1735. 
Distrib. Nyasaland. 
Var. PUBERULA, Rendle in Journ. Bot. xli. (1903) 86. 
Melsetter, 6000 ft. ; Nyahodi River at 5500 ft. ; Mt. Pene at 7000 ft. ; in 
fr. Sept., Oct. ; nn. 610, 610 a, 623, 6084. 
Distrib. Nyasaland. 
N. 1735, from the neighbourhood of Chirinda at 3500 feet, is apparently 
the male form of this species. 
