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Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, on mossy trunks of 

 trees along a stream, clumps small, branches pendent, 1750 m., June 25, 1946, 

 16417. Tropical Africa, Mascarenes. 



Lycopodium verticil latum L.f. Suppl. 448. 1781. 



Urostachys verticillatus (L. f.) Hert. Bot. Centr. Beih. 39*: 249. 1922. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, several clumps on branches of a rain-forest 

 tree, 1500 m., June 7, 1946, 16307. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya 

 Plateau, pendent from a tree in primary forest, 1890 m., July 13, 1946, 16821. 

 Pantropical. 



SEL AGIN ELL ACE AE 



Selaginella abyssinica Spring, Mem. Acad. Belg. 24 44 : 99. 1850. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, massed in moist shade on an exposed rocky 

 bluff, more or less 20 cm. high, habit erect, rhizome thick and fleshy, 1500 m., 

 June 2, 1946, 16159. Widely spread in tropical Africa from Abyssinia to Rhodesia. 

 Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A. Br. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. I860: App. 22. I860. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, gregarious and often com- 

 pletely covering the ground in old secondary forest especially in association with 

 bamboo, more or less 30 cm. high, ascending, fleshy, sterile, 1800 m., July 8, 

 1946, 16730. A common species throughout tropical east Africa and South Africa; 

 recorded also for Cameroon Mountain and the Azores. 



Selaginella mittenii Bak. Jour. Bot. 21: 81. 1883. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Likubula Gorge, abundant on shaded mossy 

 rocks on bank of river, creeping and molted [matted?], 840 m., June 20, 1946, 

 16372. Angola, Rhodesia, Tanganyika Territory, and South Africa. 



GYMNOSPERMAE 



PODOCARPACEAE 



Podocarpus milanjianus Rendle, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II. 4: 61. 1894; Stapf in 

 Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 a : 340. 1917; Chalk, Bum Davy & Desch, For. Trees 

 & Timbers Brit. Emp. 1: 20-26. 1932. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, in rain-forest, apparently rare, tree 10 m. 

 high, branches and branchlets stiff, erect, flowers [o* catkins] pink, 1700 m., 

 May 31, 1946, 16109*; ibid., occasional in riverine rain-forest, $ tree 8 m. high 

 and \y cm. in diameter at breast-height, fruit young, 1450 m., June 3, 1946, 16183; 

 ibid., 1500 m., June 2, 1946, 16156A. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Lu- 

 chenya Plateau, a major canopy tree of the plateau forest, tree up to about 25 m. 

 high and up to 1 m. in diameter at breast-height, young leaves yellow, conspicu- 

 ous, 1890 m., July 2, 1946, 16607. North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, frequent 

 canopy tree in montane forest, tree about 10 m. high and 35 cm. in diameter, 

 leaves stiff, much recurved, ripe receptacles orange, very fleshy, 2300 m., Aug. 

 13, 1946, 17208; ibid,, one of the chief dominants in montane forest, tree up to 

 15 m. tall and 0.5 m. in diameter, fruit unripe, 2250 m., Aug. 16, 1946, 17254. 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Imatong Mts.), Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, 

 Belgian Congo, Nyasaland, N. and S. Rhodesia, and Angola (Benguela Plateau). 



CUPRESSACEAE 



Widdringtonia whytei Rendle, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II. 4: 60. pi. 9, f. 6-11. 1894; 

 Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 2 : 334. 1917; Stapf in Hill, Fl. Cap. 5 2 : 

 suppl. 17. 1933. 



