TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE LINNEAN- SOC Dx 
I. The Plants of Milanji, Nyasa-l d, collected by Mr. Al ander Whyte, F.L.S., and 
described by Messrs. BritrEX, E. G. BAKEK, RENDLE, GEPP, and others; with an 
Introduction by WILLIAM CARRUTHÉRS, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Plates 1.-X.) 
Read 19th January, 1893. 
INTRODUCTION. 
AT the instigation of Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., Her Majesty’s Commissioner and Consul- 
General in British Central Africa, Mr. Whyte, in October and November 1891, explored 
the Natural History of the mountain and district of Milanji, a region in Nyasa-land to the 
south of Lake Shirwa, in about 16° South latitude and 35)” East longitude. 
From Mr. Whyte's Report to Commissioner Johnston we learn that Milanji is an 
isolated range of, for the greater part, precipitous mountains, the main mass forming a 
huge natural fortress of weather-worn precipices, or very steep rocky ascents, sparsely 
clothed with vegetation. Many of its gullies and ravines are well wooded, and in some 
of them fine examples of grand African virgin forest are met with. The route by which 
Mr. Whyte ascended the mountain on the 20th October led up its south-east face, and 
at first zigzagged over steep grassy hills, down precipitous gorges, and across rocky 
streams with beds of large water-worn granite boulders, which, when flooded, become 
impassable mountain-torrents. Further on the ascent became more difficult, and he 
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