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PLANTS COLLECTED BY THE VERNAY NYASALAND EXPEDITION OF 1946 



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J. P. M. Brenan and Collaborators 



LEGUMINOSAE {Continued) 



Amphicarpa africana (Hook, f.) Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 17: 136. 1921; Bak. f. 

 Leg. Trop. Afr. 354. 1929; Robyns, Fl. Pare Nat. Albert 1: 339. pi 32. 1948. 

 Shuteria africana Hook. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 7: 190. 1864. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, occasional in rain-forest regrowths, vine 1 m. 

 high, flowers dark purple, 1450 m., June 3> 1946, 16185; occasional in grasslands, 

 vine 1 m. high, flowers purple, 1500 m., June 5, 1946, 16244. Abyssinia, Belgian 

 Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, and Nyasaland; also on the Came- 

 roon Mountain in West Africa. 



My colleague Mr. H. K. Airy-Shaw tells me that he considers there to be no 

 justification for the rather arbitrary alteration of Elliott's original spelling (Am- 

 phicarpa) into Amphicarpaea made by De Candolle (Mem. Leg. 9: 360. 1825) on 

 account of the supposedly adjectival, not substantival, ending of Amphicarpa. 



Erythrina abyssinica Lara. Encyc. 2: 392. 1786; Louis, Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 13: 

 306. 1935. 



Erythrina tomentosa R. Br. in Salt, Voy. Abyss. Append. 65. 1814, nomen nudum; R. 

 Br. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 213, 1847, cum descr.; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 373. 1929. 



Kota-kota District: Kasabula's Village, sporadic on formerly cultivated land, 

 tree 10-20 m. tall and 40-60 cm. in diameter, very thick pale brown corky bark 

 and dense shapely crown, branches with or without scattered short prickles, leaves 

 deciduous or semi-deciduous, flowers red, appearing before the leaves, 1000 m., 

 Aug. 3, 1946, 17114. Native name (Chinyanja), mlindimila. Eastern and central 

 tropical Africa from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan southwards to Nyasaland and S. 

 Rhodesia. 



Mucuna stans Welw. ex Bak. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 187. 1871; Bak. f. Leg. 

 Trop. Afr. 381. 1929. 



Mucuna erecta Bak. Kew Bull. 1895: 65. 1895; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 381. 1929. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, occasional in Brachystegia woodland, 

 shrub about 1 m. high, branches weak, not climbing, leaves greyish, flowers 

 bronze-green, 1350 m., Aug. 1, 1946, 17079. Ubangi-Shari, British and French 

 Cameroons, Belgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, 

 N. Rhodesia, and Angola. 



Physostigma mesopoaticum Taub. Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 12: 81. 1894; Bak. f. 

 Leg. Trop. Afr. 386. 1929; Milne-Redhead, Hook. Ic. Pi. 33: pi. }214* 1933- 

 Kota-kota District: Kota-kota, bare places in grass country, shrub 90-120 cm. 

 high, flowers purple, 460 m., Aug. 7, 1946, Shortridge 17392. Chia area, occa- 

 sional in sandy woodlands and lake-plain, shrub 50-80 cm. high, stems numerous, 



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