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Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, plentiful in grassy clearings, subshrub 1.5 

 m. high, leaves said to be eaten, cooked as a green vegetable, flowers white, 

 1400 m., May 28, 1946, 16064; ibid., common on rain-forest edges and regrowth, 

 shrub about 1.5 m. high, flowers white, 1500 m., June 5, 1946, 16270. North 

 Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common in shrubby borders of montane forest, 

 shrub 1.5-2 m. high, flowers pinkish-white, 2320 m., Aug. 16, 1946, 27262. A.-E. 

 Sudan to South Africa. 



LINACEAE 



Radiola linoides Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 17. 1788; Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2 l : 289. 

 1791; Mansfeld, Repert. Sp. Nov. 46: 301. 1939. 

 Linum radiola L. Sp. PI. 281. 1753. 



Millegrana radiola (L.) Druce, Fl. Berks. 114. 1897; Fernald, Gray's Man. ed. 8. 943. 

 1950. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, between grass clumps in open grass- 

 lands, herb about 2 cm. high, flowers green, 2200 m., Aug. 17, 1946, 17292. Eu- 

 rope (N. to Scandinavia and Estonia, S. to Spain, and from Russia in the E. to 

 Ireland in the W.), Madeira, N. Africa (Morocco and Tunis); in tropical Africa 

 known only from the Cameroon Mountain and Nyasaland; naturalised in Nova 

 Scotia. 



A diminutive plant with a most interesting distribution. Radiola is often 

 ascribed to Roth (1788), but, as Messrs. Dandy and Exell point out to me, it was 

 first described by Hill in 1756 (see Ind. Kew. Suppl. 5). 



Hugonia sp. 



Kasungu District: Kasungu, Kasungu Hill, frequent on rocky slopes, shrub 

 3-6 m. high, subscandent, often tree-like in habit, fruit more or less fleshy, 

 yellow-green, 1100 m., Aug. 28, 1946, 17459. 



Flowers are wanted in order that this plant may be named with certainty. 



ERYTHROXYLACEAE 



Erythroxylum emarginatum ["Erytroxylon emarginatus"] Thonn. in Schumach. & 

 Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 224. 1827; O. E. Schulz, Pflanzenreich 29 (4 134 ): 

 135. 1907. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in rain-forest undergrowths, shrub 2-3 m. 

 high, flowers white, 1200 m., Sept. 21, 1946, 17713; Nswadzi River, common in 

 riverine rain- forest undergrowth, tree 4-6 m. high, flowers white, 840 m., Sept. 

 29, 1946, 17866. In W. Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola; in E. Africa from 

 Uganda^ southwards to S. Rhodesia, with a variety extending to Natal. 



GERANIACEAE 19 



Geranium aculeolatum Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 291. 1868. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent in grassy rain-forest regrowths, vine, 

 scrambling to a height of 2 m., viscid, flowers white, 1450 m., June 3, 1946, 

 16186. Highlands of E. Africa from Abyssinia to Nyasaland. 



Geranium simense Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 116. 1847. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, on shady roadsides, herb with weak reclining 

 habit, stems up to more or less 60 cm. long, flowers pink, 1500 m., June 4, 1946, 

 16203* Highlands from Nigeria and Fernando Po east to Abyssinia and south to 

 S. Rhodesia. 



Geranium by E. Milne-Redhead, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



