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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYASALAND 



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Cassine burkeana (Sond.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 114. 1891; Davison, Bothalia 2: 

 329. 1927. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, banks of waterholes in dry woodland of lake- 

 plain, tree 6-8 m. high, flowers green, 480 m., Sept. 3, 1946, 17516. The variety 

 in the A.-E. Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, S. Rho- 

 desia, Angola, and the Transvaal. 



Hippocratea goetzei Loes. Bot. Jahrb. 30: 346. 1901; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. 3 a : 

 242. 1921. 



Hippocratea schef fieri Loes. Bot. Jahrb. 34: 115. 1904. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in primary rain-forest, vine 15 m. high, climb- 

 ing by sensitive branchlets, flowers green, 1300 m., Sept. 20, 1946, 17684. 

 Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, and now new to Nyasaland. 



RHAMNACEAE 



Ziziphus abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 136. 1847; Brenan, 

 Check-Lists For. Trees & Shrubs Brit. Emp. 5 a : 469. 1949. 

 Kasungu District: Kasungu, in Bracbystegia woodlands, tree or shrub 5-6 m. 

 high, fruits reddish-brown, sweetish, native name (Chinyanja) kankande, 1000 m., 

 Aug. 24, 1946, 17413. Widely distributed in tropical Africa. 



Rhamnus prinoides L'Herit. Sert. Angl. 6. 1788; pi. 9. 1790. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent in rain-forest fringing streams, 

 shrub 4-5 m. high, leaves convex, very smooth and shining above, pale and dull 

 beneath, flowers green, very inconspicuous, fruit reddish, only one seen, 1500 m., 

 June 7, 1946, 16308. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, in 

 rain-forest regrowths, tree 3-4 m. high, leaves stiff, convex, very smooth and 

 glossy above, flowers green, fruits red, I860 m., June 26, 1946, 16439; ibid., west 

 slopes, common in bushy second-growth forest, tree 3-4 m. high, leaves dark and 

 glossy above, flowers brown, fruits red (few), 1650 m., July 18, 1946, 16877. 

 Abyssinia to the Cape, extending westwards to Angola and Bamenda in the 

 British Cameroons. 



Scutia myrtina (Burm. f.) Kurz, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 44 a : 168. 1875; var. oblongi- 

 folia Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 19 Beibl. 47: 37. 1894. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in secondary rain-forest, vine 10 m. high, 

 flowers greenish, 1200 m., Sept. 22, 1946, 17742. The species in eastern Africa 

 from Uganda southwards to Portuguese East Africa and N. Rhodesia (new to 

 Nyasaland); also occurring in Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, India, 

 Burma, and Siam. 



Phylica tropica Bak. Kew Bull. 1898: 302. 1898; Pillans, Jour. S. Afr. Bot. 8: 28. 

 1942. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, one example amongst 

 rocks in grassland, shrub 2 m. high, branches erect, purplish, flowers reddish- 

 brown, fruit red, more or less fleshy, 2240 m., July 3, 1946, 16652; ibid., common 

 locally in sheltered grasslands, shrub 2-2.5 m. high, branches few, erect, leaves 

 grey beneath, margins revolute, flowers brownish-red, fruit red, 1890 m., July 8, 

 1946, 16739. Nyasaland and S. Tanganyika Territory. 



Gouania longispicata Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 256. 1895; M. L. Green, 

 Kew Bull. 1916: 198. 1916. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, common in rain-forest regrowths, vine up to 

 10 m. high, fruits immature, 1200 m., Sept. 21, 1946, 17705. Uganda to S. Rho- 

 desia and Nyasaland, also in the Belgian Congo. 



