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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Imatong Mountains) and Uganda, southward to Portuguese 

 East Africa and S. Rhodesia; extending westward to the Gaboon. 



Dalbergia nitidula Welw. ex Bak. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 235. 1871; Bak. f. 

 Leg. Trop. Afr. 532. 1929. 

 Dalbergia mossambicensis Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 26: 295. 1899; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 532, 1929. 



Dalbergia swynnertonii Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 60. 1911; Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 529. 1929. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, occasional in dry woodlands of lake-plain, tree 

 12-15 m. high and 25-30 cm. in diameter, semi-deciduous, flowers white, native 

 name (Chinyanja) namasimba, 480 m., Sept. 4, 1946, 17531; ibid., occasional in 

 woodlands of dry lake-plain, tree 10 m. high, wholly or partly deciduous, flowers 

 white, native name (Chinyanja) namasimba, 480 m., Sept. 6, 1946, 17553. Bel- 

 gian Congo, Uganda, Tanganyika Territory, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, 

 N. and S. Rhodesia, and Angola. 



Pterocarpus antunesii (Taub.) Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 30: 89. 1901; Bak. f., Leg. Trop. 

 Afr. 540. 1929. 

 Calpumia antunesii Taub. Bot. Jahrb. 23: 173. 1896. 

 Pterocarpus stevensonii Burtt Davy, Kew Bull. 1932: 262. 1932. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, common in dry brushy forest of elevated allu- 

 vial plain, tree 10-12 m. high, 200 m., Oct. 2, 1946, 17894. Portuguese East 

 Africa, Nyasaland, N. and S. Rhodesia, and Angola. 



P. stevensonii seems merely a pubescent form of P. antunesii. P. stevensonii 

 is recorded for Nyasaland in Burtt Davy & Hoyle, Check-Lists For. Trees & 

 Shrubs Brit. Emp. 2(Nyasaland Protect.): 61. 1936. 



Pterocarpus angolensis DC. Prodr. 2: 419. 1825; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 544. 

 1929. 



Pterocarpus bussei Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 33: 171. 1902; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 544. 

 1929. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje, frequent in Brachystegia woodland, tree to 12 m. high 

 and to 30 cm. in diameter, deciduous, yielding very good cabinet-wood, flowers 

 yellow, appearing before leaves, native name mlombwa, 750 m., Sept. 30, 1946, 

 17879. Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, occasional in woodlands of dry stony 

 ridges, tree 12-15 m. high, deciduous, flowers yellow, appearing before the leaves, 

 native name mlombwa, 300 m., Oct. 4, 1946, 17976. Tanganyika Territory, south- 

 ward to the Transvaal, Swaziland, and Angola. 

 Pterocarpus sp. nov. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, locally common in stony woodlands, tree 10-12 

 m. higfi, deciduous, new leaves appearing with the flowers, flowers yellow, fra° 

 grant, native name mbalisa, 300 m., Oct. 5, 1946, 17989. 



This remarkable plant, with conspicuous leafy stipules, appears to be unde- 

 scribed. At the time of writing Dr. L. A. Grandvaux 3arbosa of the Seccao de 

 Botanica, Mozambique, is starting a journey of about three months to collect ma- 

 terial of this plant in different stages, to photograph it, and to study its ecology. 

 Afterwards he proposes to write a work on it, in which it will no doubt be most 

 fully described. Clearly it would be premature and presumptuous to describe it 

 formally now, and we must look forward with expectant interest to seeing the re- 

 sults of Dr. Grandvaux Barbosa's expert researches. 



Besides in Nyasaland, the plant occurs in Portuguese East Africa (Swynnerton 1429, 

 Wild 2658: Gov. Herb. No. 21909, Wild 2672: Gov. Herb. No. 21943) and S. Rhodesia (Wild 

 2338: Gov. Herb. No. 19172). 



Ostryoderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Dunn ex Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 5^3. 1929. 

 Deguelia stuhlmannii Taub. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 218. 1895. 



