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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYASALAND 



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the burning of the grass, flower°rays reddish-purple, disc white, 1500 m., Sept. 

 13, 1946, 17630. Widespread in tropical and S. Africa, and extends to Madagascar 

 and through Asia to China. 



Crepis newii Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 449 (1877) subsp. typica 

 Babcock, Genus Crepis 2: 370. 1947. 



Kota°kota District: Nchisi, one plant collected on a path in Brachystegia 

 woodland, perennial herb 40-50 cm. high, flowers yellow, 1350 m., Aug. 1, 1946, 

 17076*; ibid., in Brachystegia woodland, perennial herb about 60 cm. high, flow- 

 ering after burning of the grass, sap milky, flowers yellow, 1350 m., Sept. 9, 

 1946, 17573, The species from Tanganyika Territory to Angola and Nigeria. 



These specimens came nearest to the "minor variant" of C, newii described 

 by Babcock (I.e.) from specimens collected by Haarer in southwestern Tangan- 

 yika Territory. 



Lactuca praecox R E. Fr. Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed, Rhod.-Kongo Exp. 352. 1914* 



Kota-kota District: Chintembwe, common in rocky grassland, perennial herb 

 10-30 cm. high, young shoots flowering after burning of the grass, flowers yellow, 

 sap milky, 1400 m., Sept. 9, 1946, 17581. Tanganyika Territory and N. Rhodesia; 

 new to Nyasaland. 



Lactuca glandulifera Hook. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 7: 203 (1864) var. calva (R. 

 E. Fr.) Robyns, FL Spermat. Pare Nat. Albert 2: 606. 1947. 

 Lactuca glandulifera Hook. f. f. calva R. E. Fr. Acta Horti Berg. 9: 162. 1929; Steb- 

 bins, Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 14: 350. 1937. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in rain-forest regrowths, scrambling herb 1.5 

 m. high, sap milky, flowers yellow, 1200 m., Sept. 19, 1946, 17656. The species 

 in E. Africa from Uganda to Nyasaland, for which this is the first record; also in 

 the British Cameroons. 



Sonchus schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 458. 1877; R* E. 

 Fr. Acta Horti Berg. 8: 98. 1925. 

 North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, scrambling on forest edges, herb 2 m. 

 high, sap milky, flowers yellow, 2300 m., Aug. 11, 1946, 17173; common on Mlanje 

 Mountain, where it was not seen in fertile condition. Widespread in tropical 

 Africa. 



Sonchus exauriculatus (Oliv. & Hiern) O. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. 

 C: 421. 1895; R. E. Fr. Acta Horti Berg. 8: 110. 1925. 

 Sonchus bipontini Asch. var. exauriculatus Oliv. & Hiem in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 

 459. 1877. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, occasional on dry eroding river-banks, herb 

 40-60 cm. high, sap milky, flowers yellow, 200 m., Oct. 2, 1946, 17900. Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan and Somaliland to Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa. 



C AMPANUL ACE AE 39a 



Lobelia blantyrensis E. Wimm. Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien 56: 363. 1948. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain, southwest ridge, sprawling in shelter of 

 rocks, herb, stems about 60 cm. long, flowers blue, 2400 m., June 28, 1946, 

 16491; Luchenya Plateau, amongst sheltering rocks in grassland, rare, herb 30- 

 50 cm. high, erect or ascending, leaves purple beneath, flowers violet, 2150 m., 

 July 9, 1946, 16749. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



Determinations of Lobelia by F. E. Wimmer, Vienna. 



