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variable, I am unconvinced that the units he defines are natural ones. I therefore 

 prefer to treat S. indicum in a wide sense for the present. 



Brass 17712 agrees with subsp. distichum (Schum. & Thonn.) Hitter, Repert. 

 Sp. Nov. Beih. 16: 13 (1923) {Solarium distichum Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 

 PI. 122. 1827) var. dichroanthum (Damm.) Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. 3eih. 16: 18 

 (1923) (S. dichroanthum Damm. Bot. Jahrb: 53: 340. 1915), previously known only 

 from S. Rhodesia. 



Brass 17128 is near var. dichroanthum, but the larger central ray to the stel- 

 late hairs on the upper side of the leaves approaches subsp. rohrii (C. H. Wright) 

 Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 16: 23 (1923) (S. rohrii C. H. Wright, Kew Bull. 

 1894: 128. 1894). 



Solanum richardi Dun. Solan. Gen. Aff. Syn. 45. 1816; Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. 

 Beih. 16: 176. 1923. 



Solanum acanthocalyx Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 232. 1861; C. H. 

 Wright in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 2 3 4. 1906. 



Cholo District: Cholo, occasional on roadsides, shrub about 1 m. high, flowers 

 purple, showy, fruit greyish-white, smooth, native name (Chinyanja) ntula, 1100 

 m., Sept. 29, 1946, 17870. Belgian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, Portuguese 

 East Africa, Nyasaland, Madagascar, and the Mascarenes (distribution mostly 

 from Bitter, I.e.). 



Solanum panduriforme Drege ex Dun. in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 370. 1852; C. H. Wright 

 in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 214. 1906; Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. 

 Beih. 16: 268. 1923. 

 Solanum delagoense Dun. in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 349. 1852; Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 

 16: 250. 1923. 



Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, common in native gardens, shrub 

 1.5 rn. high, flowers purple, fruit about 25 mm. in diameter, globose, yellow, na- 

 tive name (Chinyanja) tula, 180 m., Oct. 4, 1946, 17939. Uganda to South Africa. 



S. panduriforme is usually attributed to E. Mey. in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Dokumente 147 (1843), but the name is there without any description. 



I do not consider that the characters that Bitter uses to separate S. dela- 

 goense and 5. panduriforme are sufficient for species, and I prefer to follow 

 Wright in considering them as one. In Bitter's classification Brass 17939 would 

 certainly come under 5". delagoense and not S. panduriforme. 



Nicandra physalodes ("physaloides") (L.) Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 237. pi. 131, f. 2. 

 1791. 



Atropa physalodes L. Sp. PI. 181. 1753. 



Blantyre District: Blantyre, in Brachystegia woodlands, herb about 1.5 m. 

 high, flowers lavender, fruit dry, 1100 m», June 17, 1946, 16340. Native of S. 

 America, now widely naturalised in the tropics and subtropics; but this is ap- 

 parently the first record for Nyasaland. 



SCROPHUL ARIACE AE 



Diclis tenella Hemsl. Kew Bull. 1896: 163. 1896; Hemsl. & Skan in Thiselton- 

 Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 287. 1906. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, gregarious under shelter of rocks on an ex- 

 posed bluff, herb 3-20 cm. high, flowers white, mottled with purple, 1500 m., 

 June 2, 1946, 16158. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, gregarious under shade of 

 an overhanging rock in rain-forest, herb 10-15 cm. high, flowers white, 1400 m., 

 Sept. 20, 1946, 17666. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



