Vol. 9, No. 1 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN September 21, 1954 



PLANTS COLLECTED BY THE VERNAY NYASALAND EXPEDITION OF 1946 

 (Continued from Volume 8, Page 506) 



J. P. M. Brenan and Collaborators 

 LOGANIACEAE (Continued) 



Anthocleista zambesiaca Bak. Kew Bull. 1895: 99. 1895; in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 4 1 : 540. 1903. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi, fragrant and very conspicuous in forests of gullies, 

 tree to 20 m. high and 40 cm. in diameter, leaves to 60 cm. long, more or less 

 fleshy, clustered at ends of branches, buds only, panicles produced in axils of 

 1-3 terminal pairs of leaves, fruits green, native name (Chinyanja) nguonguo, 

 1350 m., Aug. 1, 1946, 17072. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, common in relic 

 rain-forest of gullies, tree about 20 m. high and to 50 cm. in diameter, buds only, 

 1200 m., Sept. 28, 1946, 17854. Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, N. and S. 

 Pvhodesia, the Transvaal, and Swaziland. 



Strychnos pungens Solered. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 4 2 : 40. 1892; Bak. 

 in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 1 : 530. 1903. 

 Kasungu District: Kasungu, common in Brachystegia woodlands, tree 4-6 m, 

 high, fruit 8-9 cm. in diameter, globose, blue-green, solitary on short lateral 

 branchlets, eaten by natives, native name (Chinyanja) mgaigaii, 1000 m., Aug. 

 26, 1946, 17432. East Africa from Tanganyika Territory to the Transvaal and 

 westward into Angola. 



Strychnos innocua Del. Cent. PI. Meroe 53. 1826; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 4 1 : 532. 1903; Bullock & Bruce, Kew Bull. 1938: 45-52. 1938. 



Mianje District: Likubula Gorge, in Brachystegia woodlands, tree 7 m. high, 

 leaves convex, dried fruits separate, fruits bluish-green, hard, globose, 4.5-7 

 cm. in diameter, edible, 840 m., June 20, 1946, 16373. Kasungu District: Ka° 

 sungu, one specimen in village, tree 10 m. high, fruit 3.5-4.5 cm. long, 4-5 cm. 

 in diameter, lenticellate, subglobose, slightly compressed laterally, bluish-green, 

 1000 m., Aug. 27, 1946, 17434. Widespread in tropical Africa. 



Brass 17434 is an unusually broad-leaved form of this exceedingly variable 

 species. 



Strychnos cocculoides Bak. Kew Bull. 1895: 98. 1895; Duvign. Lejeunia 13: 114. 

 1949. 



Strychnos schumanniana Gilg in Warb. Baum Kunene-Samb. Exp. 330. 1903; Bak. in 

 Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 1 : 624. 1904. 



Kasungu District: Kasungu, occasional in Brachystegia woodland, tree 3-5 m. 

 high, branchlets thorny, fruits 6-7.5 cm. in diameter, globose, dark green mottled 

 with pale green, eaten by natives, native name (Chinyanja) mgaigaii, 1000 m., 

 Aug. 26, 1946, 17433. Tanganyika Territory (?), N. and S. Rhodesia, and Angola; 

 now new to Nyasaland. 



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