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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [Vol. 8, No. 5 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, common in grasslands 

 from about 2000 to 2250 m., shrubs 40-50 cm. high,, with numerous stems from a 

 common base forming a shapely bush, involucral bracts yellow-green with reddish 

 tips, florets white, 2100 m., July 3, 1946, 16645. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



Phillips and C. A. Smith (op. cit. p. 236) identify as L. whyteana a specimen, 

 Haarer 1586, from southwestern Tanganyika Territory, which I should call L. 

 dolichopappa (O. Hoffm.) S. Moore, on account of its decumbent not erect habit 

 and smaller capitula on longer peduncles. L. whyteana is thus still a Nyasaland 

 endemic. 



Cineraria buchanani S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 35: 352 c 1902. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, plentiful on forest mar- 

 gins, herb scrambling to L5-2 m. high, flowers yellow, 1890 m., July 6, 1946, 

 16697. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



Cineraria buchanani S. Moore var. ? 



Leaves more deeply divided and sometimes a pair of lobes on the petiole 

 {-Purves 93, Tuchila Plateau). 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, one plant in grassland, 

 herb 30 cm. high, flowers yellow, 2200 m., July 3, 1946, 16636.* 



Cineraria deltoidea Sond. Linnaea 23: 68. 1850, 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, frequent on shrubby borders of montane 

 forest and on disturbed ground in open grasslands, shrub 1 m. high, flowers yel° 

 low, 2350 m., Aug. 17, 1946, 11299. Natal, the Transvaal, and now new to 

 Nyasaland. 



Cineraria monticola Hutch. Kew Bull. 1931: 251. 1931. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, on shrubby banks of a grassland stream, 

 herb 1 m. high, flowers yellow, 2300 m., Aug. 14, 1946, 17225*; ibid., common in 

 shallow rocky soil in grasslands, shrub 30-40 cm. high, flowers showy, yellow, 

 2500 m., Aug. 18, 1946, 17322. 



Previously recorded from the Transvaal. The present gatherings differ in habit 

 and inflorescence, possibly owing to habitat, but in little else. 



Emilia basifolia Bak. Kew Bull. 1898: 154. 1898; Garabedian, Kew Bull. 1924: 

 137, 140. 1924. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, on moist rocks on edge of a waterfall, herb 

 15-20 cm. high, flowers yellow, 1500 m., June 7, 1946, 16313. Nyasaland, N. 

 Rhodesia, and the Belgian Congo. 



Emilia macaulayae Garabedian, Kew Bull. 1924: 138, 140. 1924. 



Blantyre District: Blantyre, in Brachystegia woodland, herb 70-100 cm. high, 

 flowers red, 1100 m., June 17, 1946, 16350. N. Rhodesia, and now new to 

 Nyasaland. 



Senecio abyssinicus Schultz-Bip. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 438. 1848; 

 Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 410. 1877. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, occasional on paths in Brachystegia wood- 

 land, herb 30-40 cm. high, more or less fleshy, leaves pale green, flowers yellow, 

 1500 m., June 6, 1946, 16282: Abyssinia and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to Nyasa- 

 land, S. Rhodesia, and Angola. 



Senecio hochstetteri Schultz-Bip. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 435. 1848; 

 Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 414. 1877. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, common in Brachystegia woodland, herb 140 

 cm G high, viscid, just coming into flower, flowers green with purple tinge, 1500 

 m OJ June 4, 1946, 16214.* Abyssinia to Nyasaland and S. Rhodesia. 



