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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



455 



Anthospermum herbaceum L. f. Suppl. 440. 17S 1. 



Anthospermum lane eolation Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 32. 1794. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, common in grassy rain-forest regrowths, herb, 

 scrambling to a height of 2 m., flowers greenish, 1450 m., June 3, 1946, 16189. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, scrambling in brushy edges of rain-forest, 

 shrub 1.5 m. high, flowers greenish, 1400 m., Aug. 2, 1946, 17107. Tanganyika 

 Territory and the Belgian Congo to South Africa. 



Anthospermum welwitschii Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 2: 500. 1898. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, southwest ridge, among rocks on summit, 

 shrub 2 m. high, stems usually solitary and erect, bearing numerous short branches 

 at summit, flowers greenish, plaot almost past flowering, 2400 m., June 28, 1946, 

 16494*; ibid., among rocks on summit, shrub 2 m. high, $ of 16494, 2400 m., June 

 28, 1946, 16495; ibid., edge of stunted forest in gulley, shrub 2 m. high, ?, 2120 

 m., June 28, 1946, 16515; ibid., southwest slope, edges of stunted forest in gul= 

 ly, shrub 2 m. high, flowers dioecious, green, red in bud, 2120 m., June 28, 

 1946, 16519.* Previously known from Angola only; now new to Nyasaland. 



Anthospermum whyteanum Britten, Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 4: 16. 1894. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, common on rocks of open 

 slopes, shrub 1-2 m. high, branches few, erect, flowers yellowish, 1900 m., June 

 25, 1946, 16430. Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, N. (?) and S. Rhodesia. 



This has been compare ! with the type of A. whyteanum, Wbyte 48 from Mlanje, 

 now in the herbarium of the British Museum. The main characters of this plant 

 are the unicuspidate stipules, the shortly patent-hispid or patent-pilose stems and 

 the pubescent leaves. I have no evidence for the occurrence of this species in 

 Tanganyika Territory, and records from there are probably due to misidentification 

 of A. usambarense K. Schum. 



Anthospermum usambarense K. Schum. Bot. Jahrb. 28: 112. 1899. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common in grassland edging montane 

 forest, 6* shrub 60-100 cm. high, erect, sparsely branched, flowers whitish, 2320 

 m., Aug. 16, 1946, 17265; ibid., common in grassland near borders of montane 

 forest, $ shrub to 1.5 m. tall, pistillate plants commonly taller and more robust 

 than staminate, flowers greenish, 2320 m e , Aug. 16, 1946, 17268; ibid., in grass- 

 land shrubberies,- $ shrub 1 m. high, flowers green, 2400 m., Aug. 18, 1946, 17318. 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to Tanganyika Territory and the Belgian Congo; new to 

 Nyasaland. 



Borreria dibrachiata (Oliv.) K. Schum. (errore "GUv.") in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenf. 4 4 : 144. 18 91. 

 Spermacoce dibrachiata Oliv. Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 87. 1873. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, common amongst grass in woodlands, per- 

 ennial herb 50*70 cm. high, with several stems erect from a thick woody root- 

 stock, flowers purple, showy, calyx-lobes red, 1430 m., May 30, 1946, 16085. 

 Uganda to S. Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa. 



Rubia longipetiolata Bullock, Kew Bull. 1932: 497, 1932. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, brushy rain-forest regrowths, vine, scram- 

 bling to 2 m., fruit somewhat fleshy, pale green, 1700 m., June 24, 1946, 16407*; 

 ibid., west slope, vine, scrambling to a height of 2 m. in second-growth forest, 

 fruits blackish-purple when ripe, fleshy, 1650 m., July 18, 1946, 16859. Kota- 

 kota District: Nchisi Mountain, trailing amongst rocks in Brachystegia woodland, 

 perennial herb, stems less than 1 m. long, fruit fleshy, black, 1500 m., July 26, 

 1946, 16949. Widespread in eastern and central tropical Africa, southward to N. 

 Rhodesia. 



