1954] 



PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYAS ALAND 



417 



H. H. Haines 173P. Khairagarh State, Kahuapani, climbing among bushes up to 1.2 m., 

 not far from fields, Oct. 20, 1943, H, F. Mooney 2364. Barogh, Oct. 15, 1916, H, H. 

 Rich 409. 



SPMALILAND: Benadir, 1912, CapU F. Provenzale s,n. (typus D. benadiriani in Herb. 

 Florent.). Dune di Merca, Aug. 16, 1937, Senni 1223 (Herb. Florent.). Ras Sif presso 

 Mogadiscio, "scogli e sabbie sulla riva del mare," Feb. 12, 1924, Puccioni & Stefanini 

 71 (Herb. Florent.) — a rather doubtful specimen, agreeing with D. uniflorus var. steno- 

 carpus except for one exceptionally large vexillum about 15 mm. long; the plant is very 

 atypical and diseased, and there are numerous black fungal marks on the large vexillum, 

 whose development may well be pathological. 



KENYA: Central Province, Machakos District: Makueni, in cleared bush country, 

 1220 m., Oct. 16, 1947, H. Bogdan AB 1350. Coast Province, Teita District: Voi, hill- 

 side, twining herb, cream flowers, 640 m., May 8, 1931, Miss. E. R. Napier 1011. Kilifi 

 District: Mida, in open mriti forest, small prostrate herb, flowers creamy and yellow, R. 

 M. Graham A 50; Mufumbini, June 21, 1945, G. M. J e/fery K 234; Malindi, occasional on 

 sand-dunes, prostrate perennial herb, flowers yellow, Aug. 13, 1949, A. Bogdan 2578; 

 Muka, June 3, 1902, T. Kaessner 905. 



TANGANYIKA TERRITORY: Lake Province, Shinyanga District: Shinyanga, margins 

 of small thickets on granite hills, rambling climber, frequent, 1100 m., May 25, 1931, Burtt 

 2444. Tanga Province, Tanga District: Moa, 1893, Hoist 3030. Pangani District: Bushiri 

 Estate, found on clifftop, plants spreading among grass, flowers dull creamy-yellow, Oct. 



I, 1950, H. G. Faulkner 686; found in sandy soil close to tidal river, a trailing, twining 

 plant, common among grass, flowers creamy-yellow, : Nov. 14, 1950, H. G. Faulkner 706; 

 sandy soil, among grass, spreading and twining plant, abundant in places, flowers creamy- 

 green with maroon markings, Dec. 21, 1950, H. G. Faulkner 759. Eastern Province, Mo- 

 honyera, 6 55' S. 38 30* E., Oct. I860, Speke & Grant s.n. Uzaramo District: Usaramo, 

 between Mapinga and Kunduchi (locality no. 0, 3, 229), flowers yellowish-white, Dec. 12, 

 1915, A. Peter K 546. Central Province, Kondoa District: Kondoa-Irangi, climbing, flow- 

 ers yellow, ca. 1600 m., Aug. 27, 1932, Geilinger 1651. 



PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA: Manica e Sofala Province. Kongone mouth of Zambezi, 

 Jan. 1861, Kirk s.n. Inhambane Province: Salela near Inhambane, sandy soil, flowers yel- 

 low, 50 m., Gomes e Sousa 1637. 



TRANSVAAL. Barberton Division: Crocodile Gorge, climbing over rocks, Apr. 1920, 

 F. A. Rogers R. 23966 (TYPUS varietatis in Herb. Kew.). 



The African specimens of this variety tend to have shorter calyx-teeth (long- 

 est one 3-5 mm.) than those of D. uniflorus var. uniflorus (4-8 mm.); but in the 

 Indian specimens no such difference is to be seen. D. henadirianus Chiov., of 

 which I have examined the type, is conspecific] 



[3. Dolichos daltoni Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. 125. 1849. 



I feel uncertain whether it would not be more satisfactory to treat this as a 

 variety of D. uniflorus, certainly D. daltoni and D. uniflorus var. stenocarpus are 

 very easily and constantly separable from one another in Africa, but D. uniflorus 

 var. uniflorus to some extent bridges the gap. However I cannot match the in- 

 dumentum on the pod of D. daltoni in Indian D. uniflorus, and rely on this together 

 with the more markedly filiform calyx-teeth to mark the species. 



D. daltoni is found in the Cape Verde Islands (J. D. Hooker 144, J. Cardoso 228), 

 Nigeria (Dalziel 45) t Eritrea (Terraciano & Pappi 14, Tellini 121, 1526, 1582, 1608, Pappi 

 7438, 7540, 8558, all in Herb. Florent.), Abyssinia (Schimper 384, 460), Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory (Hornby 266, Burtt 5199 in part, D. P. Pielou 157), Nyasaland (Archdeacon W. P. 

 Johnson 56), N. Rhodesia (Miss A. E. Gairdner 496, 496a, Mrs. H. M. Richards 1105), and 

 Angola (Baum 774).] 



[4. Dolichos sp. 



None of the fruiting specimens of this at Kew bears flowers, and vice versa, 

 so that there is some doubt about the interpretation of the species. The very tiny 

 calyx is, however, most distinctive. 



I have seen specimens from Nigeria (Lely P. 800), Tanganyika Territory 

 (Lynes I. L. 250 m, Bax 141), N. Rhodesia (F. A. Rogers 7104, J. D. Martin 

 596/33), and S. Rhodesia (Herb. Dep. Agr. 1365). 



