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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



425 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, occasional in woodlands of stony ridges, tree 

 12-14 m. tall, deciduous, leafless, flowers white, native name (Chinyanja) chi- 

 umbu, 300 m., Oct. 5, 1946, 17981. Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Portuguese 

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



Lonchocarpus capassa Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland ed. 2, 397. 1889; Bak. f. 

 Leg. Trop. Afr. 551. 1929. 

 Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, scattered in Acacia albida woodland, tree 5-6 

 m. high, leaves greyish beneath, flowers purple, native name (Chinyanja) chipa- 

 kasa, 200 m., Oct. 3, 1946, 11922. Tanganyika Territory, southward to the Trans- 

 vaal and southwest Africa. 



Afrormosia angolensis (Bak.) Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. 

 3: 158. 1906; Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 600. 1929; Louis, Bull. Jard. Bot. 

 Brux. 17: 113. 1943. 

 Ormosia angolensis Bak. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 255» 1871. 



Zomba district: Zomba Plateau, plentiful in Brachystegia woodlands, tree up 

 to about 10 m. high, crown somewhat flat-spreading, foliage pale green, flowers 

 not seen, fruit immature, 1500 m., June 4, 1946, 16225. Kota-kota District: Chia 

 area, common in sandy woodlands of lake-plain, tree about 15 m. high and 40 cm. 

 in diameter, 480 m., Sept. 6, 1946, 11555. Belgian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, 

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



Swartzia madagascariensis Desv. Ann. Sci. Nat. L 9: 424. 1826; Bak. f. Leg. 

 Trop. Afr. 605. 1929; Gilbert & Boutique, Fl. Congo Beige 3: 551. 1952. 

 Kota-kota District: Chia area, frequent on sandy lake-plain, tree 15-18 m. high 

 and 25-35 cm. in diameter, native name (Chinyanja) kampango, 480 m., Sept. 1, 

 1946, .11419. Widespread in tropical Africa. 



Cordyla africana Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 412. 1790; Milne-Redhead, Repert. Sp. Nov. 

 41: 230. 1937. 



? District: Road between Blantyre and Chikwawa, one example in Brachystegia 

 woodland, tree 25 m. tali and 60 cm. in diameter, flowers orange yellow, borne 

 in abundance, native name ntondo, 600 m., Oct. 1, 1946, 11884. Chikwawa Dis- 

 trict: Chikwawa, associated with Acacia albida in open forest, tree to 25 m. high 

 and 75 cm. in diameter, deciduous, now in young leaf, flowers orange, native name 

 (Chinyanja) mtondo, 200 m., Oct. 3, 1946, 11921. Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, 

 Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, N. and S. Rhodesia, and the Transvaal. 



Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston in Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6: 89. 1931; 

 Wilczek, Fl. Congo Beige 3: 256. 1952. 

 Reichardia ? decapetala Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 212. 1821. 



Caesalpinia sepiaria Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32. 1814, nomen nudum; Fl. Ind. 2: 360. 1832; 

 Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 615. 1930. 



Cholo District: Cholo -Mountain, overrunning rain-forest regrowths, scrambling 

 shrub 5-8 m. high, flowers yellow, fruit immature, native name (Chinyanja) lun- 

 gusi, 1300 m., Sept. 26, 1946, 11818. Native of India, now widely naturalized in 

 the tropics and subtropics of both the Old and New Worlds. 



Pterolobium stellatum 27 (Forsk.) Brenan, comb. nov. 



Mimosa stellata Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 177. 1775; Vahl, Symb. Bot. 1: 81. 1790; 

 non Mimosa stellata Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 651. 1790. 



37 Pterolobium R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64 (1814) is conserved against Cantuffa 

 Gmel., but Pterolobium in the place cited is a nomen nudum. The first description ap- 

 pears to have been provided by Wight and Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 1: 283 (1834). The 

 common-sense solution is, I feel, to conserve Pterolobium from the date of its first valid 

 publication. 



