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larger than 17119, It has not been found possible to subdivide the species into 

 easily recognizable taxa, as it is hard to find two gatherings in which all the 

 characters agree,, 



Clematis sp. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, one example in bushy 

 second-growth forest, vine 3 m. high, 1890 m., July 14, 1946, 16836. 



The above specimen is too poor for certain determination. It suggests C. com- 

 mutata Kuntze, a species known from Iringa in southern Tanganyika, but the leaf- 

 lets are larger and more glabrous than any specimens which I have seen of that 

 species. Alternatively it might be a hybrid between C. hirsuta Guill. & Perr. and 

 C. simensis Fresen., but if that is so, it is strange that Mr. Brass did not collect 

 specimens of C. hirsuta from Mt. Mlanje. It is hoped that further collection from 

 the Luchenya Plateau may reveal the identity of this interesting but imperfect 

 gathering. 



Clematis sp. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, 1500 m., June 6, 1946, 16278. 

 This gathering consists only of leaves, which are infected by Aecidium engle- 

 rianum P. Henn. It most probably is a form of Clematis hirsuta Guill. & Perr. 



Clematopsis scabiosifolia (DC.) Hutch. Kew Bull. 1920: 20. 1920; Exell, Leonard 

 & Milne-Redhead, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Beige 83: 402. 1951. 

 Clematis scabiosae folia DC. Syst. 1: 154. 1818. 

 Clematis kirkii Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 5. 1868. 



Clematis stuhlmannii Hieron. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 180. 1895. 

 Clematis lugnignu De Wild. Repert. Sp. Nov. 13: 200. 1914. 

 Clematopsis kirkii (Oliv.) Hutch. Kew Bull. 1920: 17. 1920. 

 Clematopsis stuhlmannii (Hieron.) Hutch. Kew Bull. 1920: 20. 1920. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi, occasional in Brachystegia woodlands, shrub about 

 1 m. tall, stems erect, 1300 m., Aug. 2, 1946, 17104*. Kasungu District: Kasungu, 

 in old garden lands, not common, shrub about 1 m. high, flowers pinkish-white, 

 1000 m., Aug. 27, 1946, 17435. Nigeria and Cameroons, A.-E. Sudan, Uganda, and 

 western Kenya, south to the Transvaal and Angola. 



Both these specimens of Clematopsis fall within the aggregate species, C. 

 scabiosifolia (DC.) Hutch, as defined by Exell, Leonard and Milne-Redhead 

 (I.e.). Brass 17104 is fairly typical of their Group B, and might well have been 

 placed in Clematis lugnignu De Wild, by a botanist taking the narrow view of Cle- 

 matopsis species. Brass 17435 is quite a different plant, and falls into the transi- 

 tion between Groups C and F in the above-mentioned paper. It might be described 

 as a good intermediate between Clematopsis kirkii (Oliv.) Hutch, and C. stuhl- 

 mannii (Hieron.) Hutch. This latter gathering is in unripe fruit; it seems that, the 

 collectors' colour note must refer to the plumose styles. 



Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl. Polypet. Thalam. Rehm. 99. 1887. 

 Anemone whyteana Bak. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 4: 4. 1894. 

 Anemone peneensis Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 16. 1911. 

 Anemone transvaalensis (Szyszyl. )Burtt-Davy, Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 121. 1912. 

 Knowltonia whytei Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. 3*i 170. 1915, in obs.; sphalm. pro K. why- 

 teana (Bak.f.)Engl. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, common under cover of 

 bracken (Pteridium) on grasslands, herb, flower-stems appear after burning of the 

 sheltering bracken, flower involucre [tepals] cream-coloured tinged with purple, 

 2000 m., July 18, 1946, 26870. Southern Tanganyika through Nyasaland and S. 

 Rhodesia to the Transvaal. 



