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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



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July 31, 1946, 17056. Belgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, N. 

 Rhodesia, and now new to Nyasaland. 



Trichilia volkensii Gurke, Bot. Jahrb. 19: Beibl. 47: 33. 1894; Harms in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. ed. 2. 19B 1 : 112. 1940; Staner, Bull. Jard. Bot. 

 Brux. 16: 146. 1941. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in primary rain-forest, tree 20 m. high and 

 35 cm. in diameter at breast-height, flowers cream, 1200 m., Sept. 23, 1946, 

 17765; ibid., occasional in rain-forest, tree 5-7 m. high, flowers cream-coloured, 

 fragrant, 1200 m., Sept. 25, 1946, 17800. 



Both these gatherings may be referred to var. genuina Pic.-Ser. Webbia 7: 

 334 (1950). 



Trichilia roka (Forsk.) Chiov. Flora Somala 2: 131. 1932. 



Elcaja roka Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. xcv (nom. s. descr.), 127 no. 100 (cum descr. 



gen. -specif, sed s. nom.). 1775. 

 Trichilia emetica Vahl. Symb. Bot. 1: 31. 1790; Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 



Pflanzenf. ed. 2. 19B 1 : 109. 1940; Staner, Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 16: 175. 1941. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, on bank of a stream in woodland of lake-plain, 

 tree 18 m. high and 40 cm. in diameter, flowers green, native name (Chinyanja) 

 mwavi, 480 m., Sept. 2, 1946, 17503. Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, 

 on sandy bank of river, tree 15 m. high, flowers cream-coloured, 180 m., Oct. 6, 

 1946, 18024. Widespread in tropical Africa, extending to South Africa, Madagas- 

 car, Reunion, and Arabia. 



Mr. W. G. Dyson has called my attention to this unfortunate name-change. Mr. 

 H. K. Airy-Shaw agrees that the name on one page must be associated with the 

 description on another — the same procedure, incidentally, as that which validates 

 the name Catha edulis Forsk. 



Trichilia capitata Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 120. 1861; Harms in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. ed. 2. 19B 1 : 112. 1940. 

 Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, frequent on sandy riverbanks, tree 

 15 m. high, fruit green, seeds black, aril red, 180 m., Oct. 6, 1946, 18006. Portu- 

 guese East Africa and Nyasaland. 



OLACACEAE 



Strombosia scheffleri Engl. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. Append. 21: 4. 1909; Bot. 

 Jahrb. 43: 166. 1909; Louis & Leonard, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 270. 1948. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in rain-forest canopy-layer, tree 30 m. high, 

 flowers cream-coloured, 1200 m., Sept. 24, 1946, 17780. British Cameroons, Por- 

 tuguese Congo, Belgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Nyasa- 

 land, S. Rhodesia, Angola. 



This species has been till now unrepresented at Kew from Nyasaland, but is 

 recorded thence in Check Lists For. Trees & Shrubs Brit. Emp. 2 (Nyasaland): 57 

 (1936). 



AQUIFOLIACEAE 



Ilex mitis (L.) Radlk. Rep. Brit. Ass. 1885: 1081. 1886; Act. Congr. Bot. Anvers 

 172. 1887; Loesener, Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. -Carol. 78: 240. 1901. 

 Sideroxylon mite L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 2: 178. 1767. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, isolated trees on rocks 

 in grassland, tree 3-5 m. high, of compact habit, diameter at breast-height 20 

 cm., foliage dark green, twigs purple, fruit red, soft and fleshy, 2200 m., July 3, 

 1946, 16650. Eritrea and Uganda, southwards to South Africa; in West Africa con- 

 fined to Fernando Po and the British Cameroons (the Cameroon Mountain and 

 Bamenda). 



