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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NY AS ALAND 



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Halleria elliptica Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 98. 1800; Hemsl. & Skan in Thiselton- 

 Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 296. 1906. 



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

 gins, occasional in grasslands, tree or shrub 2-4 m. high, making a compact, 

 shapely shrub or small tree, branches erect, flowers orange-red, 1860 m., June 

 26, 1946, 16443. Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, and South Africa. 



The leaves are, on an average, rather thicker, larger, and less toothed on the 

 tropical specimens than on those from South Africa, but in none of these things 

 are they constantly distinct, and though the former may perhaps be worth separat- 

 ing as a variety, it should not in my opinion be made a different species. I very 

 strongly suspect that more material will show that H. ligustri folia Bak. from 

 Madagascar cannot be kept apart from H. elliptica. 



Sutera cf. blantyrensis Skan in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 304. 1906. 



Kasungu District: Kasungu, open sandy bed of a stream, herb 30-50 cm. high, 

 flowers yellow, 1000 m., Aug. 28, 1946, 17449. 



S. blantyrensis is endemic to Nyasaland. Brass 11449 is young and lacks 

 fruits, and, while it may be S. blantyrensis, it may also perhaps be a robust state 

 of S. micrantha Hiern. 



Lindernia lobelioides (Oliv.) Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 357. 1895; Hemsl. & 

 Skan in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 a : 340. 1906. 



Vandellia lobelioides Oliv. Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 120. pi. 121 B. 1875. 



Mlanje District: Likubula, in an open marsh, herb about 30 cm. high, flowers 

 blue, 820 m., June 27, 1946, Vernay 16490. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Uganda, 

 Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, N. Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. 



Veronica abyssinica Fres. Bot. Zeit. 2: 356. 1844; Hemsl. & Skan in Thiselton- 

 Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 358. 1906. 

 North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, massed in shrubby clearing in forest, 

 herb, stems prostrate and ascending, flowers blue, 2300 m., Aug. 13, 1946, 17199. 

 Widespread on the mountains of east tropical Africa from the Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan and Abyssinia to Tanganyika Territory and Nyasaland, for which this is 

 the first record; in west Africa found only on the Cameroon Mountain and Bamenda 

 highlands in the British Cameroons. 



Alectra cf. kirkii Hemsl. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 4 2 : 366. 1906; Mel- 

 chior, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 15: 443. 1941. 



Mlanje District: Likubula Gorge, in Bracbystegia woodlands, herb 45 cm. 

 high, purplish, ? a root-parasite, sepals and bracts green, corolla orange, 1200 

 m., June 21, 1946, Vernay 16391*. Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, and Por- 

 tuguese East Africa. 



The specimen is too far past blooming to make out clearly the floral structure, 

 hence the identification is not quite certain. 



Alectra rigida (Hiern) Hemsl. in Thiselton-Dyer, FL Trop. Afr 4 2 : 369. 1906; 

 Melchior, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 15: 436. 1941. 

 Melasma rigidum Hiern, Cat. Afr. PL Welw. 1: 767. 1398. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, sporadic on moist edges of dambos, herb, flow- 

 ers yellow, 480 m., Sept. 1, 1946, 17469*. Previously recorded only from Angola; 

 new to Nyasaland. 



Alectra sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 2: 458. 1891; Melchior, Notizbl. 

 Bot. Gart. Berlin 15: 437. 1941; Troupin, Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 19: 

 280. 1949. 



Gerardia sessiliflora Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 79. 1794. 



