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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



481 



Coreopsis pinnatipartita 0. Hoffm. Bot. Jahrb. 30: 432. 1901; Sherff, Field Mus a 

 Publ. Bot. 11: 376. 1936. 



Guizotia bidentoides Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 386. 1877; non Coreopsis 



bidentoides (Nutt.) T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 339. 1842. 

 Coreopsis whytei S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 35: 348. 1902; Sherff, Field Mus. 



Publ. Bot. 11: 377. 1936. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, west slopes, in forest regrowths, tree or 

 shrub 3-4 m. high, flowers yellow, showy, 1830 m., June 20, 1946, 16399; ibid., 

 plentiful in brushy second-growth forest, shrub 2-3 m. high, ray and disc-florets 

 yellow, anthers brown, 1850 m., July 18, 1946, 16864. Kota-kota District: Nchisi 

 Mountain, on grassy edges of gulley-forests, shrub 1.5 m. high, flowers pale yel- 

 low, 1400 m., July 25, 1946, 16942. North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, plenti- 

 ful in second-growth montane forest of escarpment, shrub 2-3 m. high, flowers 

 yellow, conspicuous, 2200 m., Aug. 17, 1946, 17297. Kenya to Nyasaland. 



In this species there appears to be a hairiness cline running north and south; 

 specimens from Kenya and N. Tanganyika being densely pubescent particularly 

 on the upper side of the foliage; those from SW. Tanganyika being in general less 

 densely so; while in Nyasaland sparsely pubescent to glabrescent forms are prev- 

 alent. Brass 16399, 16864, 17297 are thinly pubescent, while 16942 is densely 

 so. The names Coreopsis whytei S. Moore and Guizotia bidentoides Oliv. & Hiern 

 (the latter name unmentioned by Sherff) have been applied to the less pubescent 

 plants, while a sheet at Kew of the type=number of C. pinnatipartita is of a rela- 

 tively more pubescent plant. At present I do not consider it worth while to make 

 varieties. 



Bidens steppia (Steetz) Sherff, Bot. Gaz. 76: 82. 1923; Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 16: 

 542. 1937. 



Coreopsis steppia Steetz in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 496. 1863. 



Blantyre District: Near Blantyre, in Bracbystegia woodland, herb 40-50 cm. 

 high, rays and disc yellow, 915 m., May 26, 1946, Vernay 16023. Zomba Dis- 

 trict: Zomba Plateau, one plant in an open bog, herb 30 cm. high, flowers yel- 

 low, 1700 m., May 31, 1946, 16112.* Mlanje District: Likubula Gorge, on moist 

 sunny banks of river, herb 1 m. high, flowers golden-yellow, 840 m., June 20, 

 1946, 16383. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, on a path in rain°forest, 30-40 cm. 

 high, flowers yellow, conspicuous, 1200 m., Sept. 25, 1946, 17796. E. Africa, 

 from Uganda to S. Rhodesia and Angola. 



In the absence of ripe fruits these gatherings cannot be named varietally. 



Schistostephium artemisiifolium ["artemisiaefolium"] Bak. Kew Bull. 1897: 270. 

 1897. 



Schistostephium microcephalum Bak. Kew Bull. 1897: 270. 1897. 



Schistostephium crataegifolium sensu Hutch. Kew Bull. 1916: 102, 1916, p. p.; non 

 S. crataegifolium (DC.) Fenzl ex Harv. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, frequent in Bracbystegia woodland, per- 

 ennial herb 80-120 cm. high, flowers yellow, 1400 m., July 24, 1946, 16898. Tan- 

 ganyika Territory to S. Rhodesia. 



The cutting of the leaves of S. artemisiifolium, with their narrow and rather 

 elongate parallel-sided segments, which are entire or sometimes again sparsely 

 divided into similar lobes, is so different from the shorter segments with numer- 

 ous short but very acute lobes of S: crataegifolium that I prefer to consider them 

 distinct. 



Lopholaena whyteana (Britten) Phill. & C. A. Sm. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 21: 

 236, 1933. 



Othonna whyteana Britten, Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 4: 21. pi. 4, f. 1, 2. 1894. 



