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Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, west slopes, in brushy second-growth forest, 

 vine 3 m. high, flowers cream, 1650 m., July 1.8, 1946, 16875, Kota-kota District: 

 Nchisi Mountain, occasional in rain-forest of gullies, vine 3-5 m. tall, flowers 

 white, anthers brown, 1350 m., Aug. 2, 1946, 17105. Cholo District: Cholo Moun- 

 tain, common in rain-forest regrowths, vine 4-8 m. high, flowers white, 1200 m., 

 Sept. 23, 1946, 17766. Tropics of the Old World. 



Robinson (I.e.) points out that the old-world plant that we have been calling 

 M. scandens is not the same thing as Willdenow's true M. scandens from N Amer- 

 ica, but that it should bear the name M. cordata. Although, owing to lack of mate- 

 rial, Robinson left the exact clearing°up of the African "W. scandens*' till later, 

 the common plant of Africa seems obviously the same as that of Asia and also, 

 as Robinson says, different from the North American A1. scandens. For additional 

 comments see Koster, Blumea 1: 509-510 (1935). 



Dichrocephala integrifolia (L.f.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 333. 1891. 

 Hippia integrifolia L. f. Suppl. 389. 1781. 

 Grangea latifolia Lam. 111. pi. 699, /. 1. 1797. 



Dichrocephala latifolia (Lam.) DC. Prodr. 5: 372. 1836; Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 3: 303. 1877. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, in a forest opening, herb 

 80 cm. high, flowers greenish, 1890 m., July 12, 1946, 16801.* Tropics and sub- 

 tropics of the Old World. 



Felicia homochroma S. Moore, Jour. Bot. 59: 229. 1921. 3 * 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, plentiful on shallow seepage-wet soil in 

 Brachystegia woodland, herb 10-30 cm. high, flowers yellow, 1400 m., July 24, 

 1946, 16915. Belgian Congo, N Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. 



Microglossa pyrifolia (Lam.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 353. 1891. 

 Conyza pyrifolia Lam. Encyc. 2: 89. 1786. 



Microglossa volubilis DC. Prodr. 5: 320. 1836; Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 3: 309 o 1877. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in rain-forest regrowth, scandent shrub 10 m. 

 high, leaves greyish beneath, flowers greenish-white, 1200 m., Sept. 28, 1946, 

 17852. Widespread in tropical Africa and Asia. 



Nidorella malosana Bak. Kew Bull. 1898: 149. 1898. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, in Brachystegia woodlands, perennial herb 

 40 cm, high, flowers yellow, 1500 m., June 6, 1946, 16287. Endemic to 

 Nyasaland. 



Nidorella auriculata DC. Prodr. 5: 322. 1836. 



Mlajije District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, in an erosion gully in 

 grassland, shrub 1.5 m. high, flowers yellow, 1900 m., July 16, 1946, 16854. 

 Nyasaland to South Africa. 



Nidorella microcephala Steetz in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 406. 1863; Oliv. & 

 Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 310. 1877. 

 Kota-kota District: Chia area, plentiful on moist banks of a stream in lake- 

 plain woodland, herb about 1 m. high, flowers yellow, 480 m., Sept. 2, 1946, 

 17504. Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, plentiful on sandy beaches, 

 herb about 1 m. high, flowers yellow, 180 m., Oct. 4, 1946, 17971. Uganda to 

 Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa. 



Conyza persicifolia (Benth.) Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 312. 1877. 

 Erigeron persicae folium Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 430. 1849. 



16 Determined by R. D. Meikle. 



