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Embelia schimperi Vatke, Linnaea 40: 206. 1876; Mez, pflanzenreich 9 (4" 6 ): 

 329. 1902. 



Embelia abyssinica Bak. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 497. 1877. 



Embelia kilimandscharica Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. 20 (Beibl. 47): 45. 1894; Mez, Pflanzen- 

 reich 9 (4 236 ): 330. 1902; e descr. 



Embelia nyassana Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. 30: 96. 1901; Mez, Pflanzenreich 9 (4 236 ): 329. 

 1902; e descr. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, large climber in montane forest, vine 

 6 m, high, leaves more or less fleshy, very dark green, nerves obscure, flowers 

 yellowish-green, pedicels red, 2300 ra., Aug. 13, 1946, 17203. Abyssinia, south- 

 ward to Nyasaland. 



The characters used by Mez and Gilg to separate E. schimperi, E. kilimand- 

 scharica, and E. nyassana elude me Specimens from southwestern Tanganyika 

 have been distributed as E. kagoje and E. stolzii, both of them Gilg's unpublished 

 names, which to me seem to be E. schimperi. I suspect that E. mujenja Gilg and 

 E. pellucida (Hiern) Ko Schum. may also prove to be synonymous. 



SAPOTACEAE 



Chrysophyllum gorungosanum Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pfl.-Fam. & Gatt. 8: 44. 1904. 



Chry sopbyllum fulvum S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 131. 1911. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, common in primary rain-forest, tree at- 

 taining a large size, sap milky,, fruit unripe, 1650 m., July 31, 1946, 17067. 

 Uganda to S„ Rhodesia and Angola,, 



I am very grateful to Dr A„ D. J. Meeuse, of Pretoria, who is making a special 

 study of the South African Sapotaceae, for informing me that C. gorungosanum is 

 an earlier synonym of C. fulvum. 



Chrysophyllum magalismontanum Sond. Linnaea 23: 72. 1850. 



Chrysophyllum argyrophyllum Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 3: 641. 1898; Engl. Monogr. 

 Afr. Pfl.-Fam. & Gatt. 8: 46. 1904. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, common on banks of waterholes on dry lake 

 plain, tree to 15 m. tall and 40 cm. in diameter, leaves brownish below, flowers 

 red, sap milky, native name (Chinyanja) mpapa, 480 m., Sept. 5, 1946, 17539. Bel- 

 gian Congo, N. Rhodesia, Angola, and South Africa; no specimens from Nyasaland 

 hitherto in Herb. Kew., but recorded for Nyasaland in Check-Lists For. Trees & 

 Shrubs Brit. Emp. 2 (Nyasaland): 70 (1936). 



Dr. A. D. J. Meeuse kindly informs me that he cannot distinguish C. argy- 

 rophyllum from C. magalismontanum. 



Vincentella sapini (De Wild.) Brenan, comb, nov, 



Bakerisideroxylon sapini De Wild. Rev. Zool. Afr. 7 (Suppl. Bot.): B 16. 1919. 

 Pouteria tridentata Baehni, Candollea 9: 386. 1942. 



Vincentella stolzii Mildbr. ex Hutch. Bot. S. Afr. 506. 1946, nomen nudum. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, on bank of a stream in woodland of lake plain, 

 tree 6 m. high, sap milky, fruit yellow, soft, edible, native name (Chinyanja) 

 pimbinyolo, 480 m., Sept. 3, 1946, 17510. Belgian Congo, Portuguese East Africa, 

 Nyasaland (new record), and N. Rhodesia. 



Baehni (Candollea 9: 385. 1942) makes Bakerisideroxylon sapini, from the 

 description, a probable synonym of Pouteria revoluta (Bak.) Baehni. Part of the 

 type-gathering of the former, agreeing with the original description, is at Kew, 

 and shows that this is wrong, the two plants differing widely in branchlet indu- 

 mentum, stipules, leaf-apex, etc. B. sapini is in fact much closer to the plant 

 that Baehni described as Pouteria tridentata Baehni, based on Stolz 1889 from 

 southwestern Tanganyika Territory; indeed I am certainly not prepared to separate 



