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VITACEAE 



Rhoicissus erythrodes (Fresen.) Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phan. 5: 465. 1887; 

 Gilg & Brandt, Bot. Jahrb. 46: 440. 1911. 

 V Ms erythrodes Fresen. Mus. Senckenb. 2: 284. 1837. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent on rocky ground in Brachystegia 

 woodlands, vine 1-2 m. high, 1500 m., June 8, 1946, 16324. Widespread in tropi- 

 cal Africa, extending to Arabia and South Africa. 



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Allophylus chaunostachys Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. 30: 349. 1901; Radlk. Pflanzenreich 

 98b (4 165 ): 524. 1932. 

 North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, undergrowth of montane forest of es- 

 carpment, tree 6 m. high, flowers green, stamens white, 2100 m., Aug. 17, 1946, 

 17293. Recorded also from Kinga Mountains (type) and from Kyimbila District in 

 S. Tanganyika, close to the Nyasaland frontier. 



Allophylus buchananii Gilg & Radlk. Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38: 219. 1908; 

 Radlk. Pflanzenreich 98b (4 l6S ): 524. 1932. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, undergrowth of riverine rain-forest, tree 3 m. 

 high, leaves thin, very dark green above, paler below, flowers white, 1400 m., 

 May 28, 1946, 16051. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, frequent in rain-forest 

 undergrowth, tree 4-6 m. high, fruit red, fleshy, globose, 1300 m., Sept. 24, 

 1946, 17782. Apparently confined to Nyasaland; specimens from Kenya and Tan- 

 ganyika have been wrongly named A. buchananii. 



Allophylus sp. nr. buchananii Gilg ex Radlk. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, common canopy tree in 

 primary forest, tree up to about 30 m. high, flowers white, fruit immature, 1890 

 m., July 12, 1946, 16802. 



Stature and the coarse, subcoriaceous texture of the leaves distinguish this 

 species from A. buchananii; the inflorescences are also longer and more robust, 

 and the twigs more prominently lenticellate than in that species. The specimen 

 cannot be identified with any material at Kew, but, without seeing types in con- 

 tinental herbaria, it would be unwise to add another name to the already over- 

 burdened list of Allophylus species. 



Deinbollia xanthocarpa (Klotzsch) Radlk. Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 8: 304, 369. 

 1878; Pflanzenreich 98c (4 16 «): 676. 1932. 



Sapindus xanthocarpus Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 119. 1 861 . 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, in dry brushy forest of river plain, shrub 1.5 

 m. high, flowers white, 200 m., Oct. 2, 1946, 17904. Portuguese East Africa and 

 Nyasaland. 



Dodonaea viscosa (L.) J acq. Enum. PI. Carib. 19. 1760; Radlk. Pflanzenreich 

 98g (4 l6S ): 1363. 1933. 



Ptelea viscosa L. Sp. PI. 118. 1753. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, in rain-forest regrowths, not common, tree 6 

 m. high, 1500 m., June 7, 1946, 16305. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, west 

 slopes, occasional in second growths of montane forest, tree up to about 8 m. 

 high, 1850 m., July 18, 1046, 16868. North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, in 

 edges of montane forest on escarpment, shrub 2-3 m. high, fruits reddish, 2100 

 m., Aug. 17, 1946, 17276. Tropical and subtropical regions of the whole world. 



™ Allophylus by R. D. Meikle, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



