1954] 



PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYASALAND 



431 



stegia woodland, tree to 12 m. tall and 60 cm. in diameter, flowers pale pink, 

 1000 m., Aug. 26, 1946, 17423. Kota-kota District: Chia area, common in sandy 

 woodlands of lake plain, tree to 20 m. high and to 60 cm. in diameter, flowers 

 pale pink, native name (Chinyanja) muula, 480 m., Sept. 1, 1946, 17467. Kenya, 

 Tanganyika Territory, Belgian Congo, Portuguese East Africa, N. and S. Rho- 

 desia, Nyasaland, Angola, and the Transvaal. 



Some authors have included this under P. curatellifolia Planch., but P. mobola 

 differs in the brown, denser, more spreading hair on the inflorescence, contrasting 

 with the usually silvery-grey and more appressed hair of the former. The two may 

 not be specifically distinct, however, for intermediates certainly occur. 



Hirtella zanzibarica Oliv. Hook. Ic. PI. pi. 1193. 1876; Brenan, Trop. Woods 86: 

 5. 1946. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, common on banks of waterholes in dry wood- 

 lands of lake-plain, tree to 25 m. high and to 50 cm. in diameter, inflorescence 

 viscid, petals white, fugacious, calyx and stamens green, native name (Chin- 

 yanja) kalango, 480 m., Sept. 3, 1946, 17514. Kenya to Portuguese East Africa 

 and Nyasaland. 



Hirtella bangweolensis (R.E.Fr.) Greenway, Kew Bull. 1928: 199. 1928; Hauman, 

 Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 21: 183. 1951. 

 Parinari bangweolense R. E. Fr. Repert. Sp. Nov. 12: 540. 1913. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, common in sandy woodlands, tree to 6-15 m. 

 high and to 40 cm. in diameter, flowers white, native name (Chinyanja) mchenja, 

 480 m., Sept. 1, 1946, 17463. The first record from Nyasaland; previously known 

 only from SW. Tanganyika Territory and N. Rhodesia, with a variety, according 

 to Hauman (I.e.), in the Bas-katanga District of the Belgian Congo. 



Pygeum africanum Hook f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 7: 191. 1864. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, tree 25 m. high and 40 cm. in diameter, 

 petioles red, leaves dark green and glossy above, much paler below, flowers dry, 

 fruit immature, 1500 m., July 29, 1946, 17026. Widespread on the hills and moun- 

 tains of tropical and South Africa. 



Alchemilla nyikensis De Wild. Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 7: 376. 1921. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, plentiful in grass on marshy ground, 

 herb, flowers green later reddish, 2300 m., Aug. 13, 1946, 17201. 



I have compared Brass 17201 with the type of A. nyikensis at the British Mu= 

 seum (Natural History), collected by M. M. S. Henderson on the Nyika Plateau 

 in 1903. 



Rubus exsuccus Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 256. 1847; Gustafsson, 

 Ark. Bot. 26A r : 36. 1934. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, frequent in rain-forest regrowth, subscandent 

 shrub 2 m. high, petals none, filaments pale purple, 1200 m., Sept. 19, 1946, 

 17653; ibid., scrambling shrub 2-3 rn. high, fruit black when ripe, good-flavoured, 

 1200 m., Sept. 21, 1946, 17706. East Africa, from Abyssinia to Nyasaland and 

 probably S. Rhodesia. 



Rubus rigidus Sm. f. lachnocarpus Gust. Bot. Notiser 1932: 18. 1932; Ark. Bot. 

 26A 7 : 58. 1934. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent in moist grassy clearings, weak 

 shrub 1 m. high, leaves whitish below, petals and filaments pale purple, 1400 m., 

 May 28, 1946, 16070; ibid., occasional in open grasslands, shrub about 1 m. high, 

 fruit about 2 cm. in diameter, orange-red, sweet and palatable, 1770 m., May 31, 

 1946, 16138. The species (in a wide sense) from Uganda to South Africa; the 



