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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



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16771. Tanganyika Territory, and probably Uganda also; now recorded for the 

 first time from Nyasaland. 



Craterispermum laurinum (Poir.) Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 411. 1849. 

 Coffea laurina Poir. in Lam. Encyc. Suppl. 2: 14. 1811 . 



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

 plain, tree 6-8 m, high, flowers white, fragrant, 480 m., Sept. 5, 1946, 17542. 

 Widespread in tropical Africa and very variable. 



Pavetta lasiobractea K. Schum. Bot. Jahrb. 30: 415. 1901; Bremek. Repert. Sp. 

 Nov. 37: 140. 1934. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, in montane forest undergrowth, shrub 

 about 1 m high, leaves stiff, midrib and nerves whitish, fruit unripe, laterally 

 compressed, 2300 m., Aug. 13, 1946, 17202; ibid., in montane forest undergrowth, 

 shrub 2 m. high, fruit unripe, 2250 m., Aug. 16, 1946, 17271. Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory and Nyasaland. 



Coffea ligustroides S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 94« 1911; A. Cheval. Ca- 

 feiers 2: pi. 69. 1042; 3: 220. 1947. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, frequent in rain-forest undergrowth, tree 3-4 

 m. high, flower-buds only, fruit red, fleshy, compressed-ovoid, about 12 x 9 mm., 

 1300 m., Sept. 20, 1946, 17688. Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, and S. 

 Rhodesia. 



Psychotria sp. nr. kirkii Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 206. 1877. 



Mlanje District: Likubula Gorge, in rocky bed of river, shrub 40 cm. high, fruit 

 soft, red, fleshy, 840 m., June 20, 1946, 16368. 



Practically glabrous and narrower-leaved than usual. Further material is 

 wanted. 



Psychotria sp. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, common on rocks in Brachystegia wood- 

 land, shrub 1-1.5 m. high, flowers cream-coloured, usually sterile, 1400 m., July 

 27, 1946, 16983. 



The specimen is insufficient for exact naming. 



Psychotria sp. ? 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, in undergrowth of montane forest, tree 

 5-6 m. high, 2250 m., Aug. 16, 1946, 17253. 



The flowers are all galled and badly malformed. It is possibly a Grumilea, 

 but is not matched in either genus at Kew. 



Grumilea sp. nr. kirkii Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 206. 1877. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, in rain-forest under- 

 growth, tree 5-6 m. high, fruit unripe, 1890 m., June 30, 1946, 16541. 



This specimen is extremely close vegetatively to G. kirkii, but the fruits are 

 on much longer and more slender pedicels. Further collections, including the 

 flowers, are wanted. 



Geophila repens (L.) Johnst. Sargentia 8: 281, 282. 1949. 

 Rondeletia repens L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 928. 1759. 

 Psychotria herbacea J acq. Enum. PI. Carib. 16. 1760. 

 Psychotria herbacea L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 245. 1762. 

 Geophila uniflora Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 221. 1877. 



Geophila herbacea (L.) K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 4 4 : 119. 1891. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, creeping on ground in primary rain-forest, 

 herb, fruits red, fleshy, ovoid-globose, about 8 mm. long and 7 mm, in diameter, 



