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My colleague, ,Mr. R. D. Meikle, points out an additional difficulty over //. 

 arborescens. Chamisso and Schlechtendahl based this binomial on Bupleumm 

 arborescens Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 50 (1794); but this is a later homonym of 

 Bupleumm arborescens Jacq. Coll. Dot. 2: 343 (1788). 



Pimpinella engleriana Wolff ex Norman, Jour. Linn. Soc. 3ot. 47: 590. 1927. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, moist gulley in Brachystegia woodland, 

 perennial herb 150-180 cm. high, root aromatic, flowers greenish-white, 1400 m., 

 July 25, 1946, 16933; ibid., common locally in moist gullies in Brachystegia wood- 

 land, perennial herb 1-1.5 m. high, flowers white, 1400 m., July 27, 1946, 16981, 

 Tanganyika Territory and Nyasaland. 



Pimpinella welwitschii Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. (Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 

 1891:) 319. 1892; Norman, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 47 : 590. 1927. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, one plant on a sunny moist bank, perennial 

 herb 110 cm. high, flowers white, 1450 m., June 5, 1946, 16229*; ibid., one ex- 

 ample on a moist shaded bank, herb 40 cm. high, flowers white, 1500 m., June 5, 

 1946, 16236. New to Nyasaland; previously only known from Angola. 



Diplolophium zambesianum Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 18. 1877; Norman, 

 Jour. Bot. 61: 56, 57. 1923. 

 Mombera District: 10 miles N. of Mzimba, common on sandy soil in Brachy- 

 stegia woodland, herb 100-120 cm. high, flowers cream, 1370 m., Aug. 9, 1946, 

 17145, Belgian Congo, Angola, N. and S. Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. 



Diplolophium buchanani (Benth. ex Oliv.) Norman, Jour. Bot. 61: 56, 57. 1923. 

 Physotrichia buchanani Benth. ex Oliv. Hook. Ic. PI. pi. 1358. 1881. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, common on grassy ledges of a bluff, shrub 



I. 5—2 m. high, plant glaucous, stems several, simple, erect, flowers greenish- 

 white, 1500 m., June 6, 1946, 16289. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya 

 Plateau, frequent in rocky situations in grasslands, shrub 1.5-2.5 m. high, glau° 

 cous, aromatic, with several erect simple stems, flowers greenish-white, 2000 m., 

 July 11, 1946, 16793. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



Peucedanum linderi Norman, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 49: 511. 1934. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, plentiful in small opening in montane 

 forest, herb 2,5-3 m. high, stems hollow, fleshy, flowers white, 2320 m., Aug, 

 16, 1946, 17237. Kenya (?), Belgian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, and now re- 

 corded for the first time from Nyasaland. 



Peucedanum nyassicum Wolff, Bot. Jahrb. 48: 282. 1912; Norman, Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 49: 513» 1934. 

 Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, occasional on paths in 

 grassland, perennial herb 30-40 cm. high, aromatic, flowers red, 1900 m,, July 



II, 1946, 16/97. t Apparently endemic to Mlanje; until now only represented by 

 Whyte's original gathering of 1891. 



Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. Flora 27 (Beil. 1): 4. 1844; Norman, Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 49: 514. 1934. 

 Kasungu District: Kasungu, growing among grouped small trees or in brushy 

 patches in Brachystegia woodland, tree or shrub 2-3 m. high, deciduous, now 

 leafless, flowers green, native name (Chinyanja) mboloni, 1000 m., Aug. 27, 1946, 

 17437. Chikwawa > District: Chikwawa, occasional in Acacia albida woodland, 

 tree 5—7 m. high, deciduous, now producing leaves, flowers green, native name 

 mpoloni, 200 m., Oct. 3, 1946, 17923. Widespread in tropical Africa, extending 

 south to the Transvaal. 



