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lished two years earlier than Klotzsch's species. If these species are found to 

 be conspecific, the epithet decumbens would have to be used. 



Thylachium africanuro Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 418. 1790. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, common in dry bushy forest on elevated river- 

 plain, tree or shrub 2-6 m. high, leaves 1-3-foliolate, flowers white, fruit im- 

 mature, costate, 200 m., Oct. 2, 1946, 17891. Eastern Africa from Kenya to S. 

 Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa. 



Cleome densifolia C. H. Wright, Kew Bull. 1907: 360. 1907. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Likubula-Tuchila Divide, frequent in grassy 

 edges of forest, shrub about 1-1.5 m. high, viscid, flowers pink, 2000 m., July 9, 

 1946, 16754. Nyasaland. 



Known previously from a single gathering made by Mr. J. M. Purves in Septem- 

 ber, 1901, on Tuchila Plateau. 



Cleome sp. 



Kasungu District: Kasungu, common in old gardens, herb about 1 m. high, vis- 

 cid, foetid, flowers purple, 1000 m., Aug. 26, 1946, 17431. 



I have been unable to match this specimen with any Cleome at Kew. I am re- 

 luctant to describe it as new on a single gathering, as, being a weed of cultiva- 

 tion, it may well be an introduced species. 



VIOLACEAE 11 



Rinorea burtt-davyi Dunkley, Kew Bull. 1937: 466. 1937. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, characteristic undergrowth in primary rain- 

 forest, attractive tree 3-7 m. high, flowering profusely, flowers white, fruit im- 

 mature, 1300 m., Sept. 20, 1946, 17687. Nyasaland. 



Cholo Mountain is the type-locality of R. burtt-davyi Dunkley. 



Viola abyssinica Steud. ex. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 105. 1868. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common in ground cover of montane 

 forest, stems creeping, flowers purple, 2400 m., Aug. 18, 1946, 17316; ibid., 

 scrambling in grassland shrubberies, herb, stems branched, to 1 m. long, flowers 

 purple, 2500 m., Aug. 18, 1946, 17323. East African Mountains from Abyssinia to 

 S. Rhodesia, Cameroon Mt., and Fernando Po. 



FLACOURTIACEAE" 



Dovyalis macrocalyx (Oliv.) Warb. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 3 6A -* 44. 

 1893. 



Aberia ? macrocalyx Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 122, 1868. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, one specimen in rain-forest undergrowth, tree 

 6 m. high, much branched, creeping, flowers green, 1200 m., Sept. 25, 1946, 

 17802; ibid., frequent in rain-forest undergrowth, o* of 17802, tree 4-7 m. high, 

 flowers greenish, 17812; Nswadzi River, in rain-forest undergrowth, ? tree 5 m. 

 high, branchlets drooping, flowers whitish, fruiting calyx reddish, 840 m., Sept. 29, 

 1946, 17862. Tanganyika Territory, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, N. and S. 

 Rhodesia, and Angola. 



Kiggelaria africana L. Sp. PL 1037. 1753. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, second-growth rain-forest, tree 7-8 m. high, 

 fruit green outside, yellow inside, seeds orange-red, 1450 m., June 4, 1946, 



"By E. Milne-Redhead, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

 "Kiggelaria by E. Milne-Redhead, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



