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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [Vof. 9, No. 1 



This variety is apparently confined to south-western Tanganyika Territory. 

 Goetze 1043 from the Poroto Mountains is the type. Stolz 1388, 2545, Geilinger 

 2731, 2855, B. XV. No. 19 (all in Herb. Kew) are conspecific. Rolfe compared 

 S. goetzei with S. caerulea Rolfe, but this is altogether wrong as S. goetzei cer- 

 tainly is a Walafrida and S. caerulea a true Selago.] 



[6b. Walafrida goetzei (Rolfe) Brenan var. pubescentior Brenan, var. nov. 



Caules et rami principales inflorescentiae pilis longioribus patentibus dia- 

 metrum ramorum adaequantibus vel superantibus pubescentes. 



S. RHODESIA: Melsetter District: Chimanimani Mountains, Bonde Valley, 

 straggling herb to 1 m., flowers lavender, 1520 m., June 5, 1949, H. C. Wild 2859 

 (Govt. Herb. No. 23563) (TYPUS varietatis in Herb. Kew.). 



This may prove to be merely a habitat-form of var. goetzei. ] 



[6c. Walafrida goetzei (Rolfe) Brenan var. brevipila Brenan, var. nov. 



Caules et rami principales inflorescentiae brevissime crispato-pubescentes, 

 pilis quam diametrum ramorum brevioribus. 



TANGANYIKA TERRITORY: Southern Highlands Province, Rungwe District: 

 Bundali Mountains; Issoko, leaves green, flowers whitish-lilac, June 18, 1912, 

 Stolz 1289 (Herb. Kew.). 



S. RHODESIA: Inyanga District: Pungwe Gorge, 1830 m., Aug. 2, 1944, /. C. 

 Hopkins in Govt. Herb. No. 12627 (Herb. Kew.). In open grassland, woody bush 

 60 cm. high, flowers white, 2040 m., Oct. 18, 1946, H. Wild 1375 (Govt. Herb. 

 No. 15912) (Herb. Kew.). Pungwe Falls, in grass, 1830 m., Sept. 14, 1947, R. C. 

 Munch 32 (Govt. Herb. No. 17680) (Herb. Kew.). Umtali District: Umtali, Cloud- 

 lands Farm. Nov. 1933, Collector ? in Forest Herb. Salisbury No. 3 C/33 (Herb. 

 Kew.). Stapleford, to 1 m. high on cool aspects, July 28, 1937, G. M. McGregor 

 106 (TYPUS varietatis in Herb. Kew.). Stapleford Forest Reserve, 1520 m., Aug. 

 2, 1944, /. C. Hopkins in Govt. Herb. No. 12630 (Herb. Kew.).] 



[7. Walafrida schinzii Rolfe, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 1011. 1904. 



The type-specimen of this in Herb. Kew (Dinter 370 from Southwest Africa, 

 Waterberg) is scrappy and unrepresentative. It seems closest to W. paniculata, 

 but to be a sound species differing in the larger corolla — especially the longer 

 tube — and the larger, broader, obtuse dorsal calyx-lobe. The long linear glabrous 

 or minutely puberulent leaves are also characteristic. The inflorescence seems 

 to be an elongate narrow interrupted panicle built up of sessile to shortly stalked 

 dense glomerules. The species is much in need of recollecting. It is just con- 

 ceivable that it may be a very abnormally grown lax-inflorescenced form of W. 

 alopec&roides. ] 



[8. Walafrida paniculata (Thunb.) Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 5 1 : 127. 1901. 

 Selago paniculata Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 99. 1800. 



Selago lacunosa Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 255. 1861; Rolfe in 



Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 272. 1900. 

 Selago muralis Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 1129. 1876. 

 Selago dinteri Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 271. 1900. 

 Selago amboensis Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 272. 1900. 

 Walafrida lacunosa (Klotzsch) Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 5*: 117. 1901. 

 Walafrida muralis (Benth. & Hook.) Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 5 l : 117. 1901. 

 Walafrida dinteri (Rolfe) Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 5 1 : 117. 1901. 

 Walafrida fleckii Rolfe, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 1011. 1904. 

 Walafrfda cecilae Rolfe, Kew Bull. 1906: 167. 1906. 

 Selago cecilae (Rolfe) Eyles, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 473. 1916. 



In the wide sense taken here W, paniculata is found in Portuguese East Africa, 

 N. and S. Rhodesia, Southwest Africa, South Africa, and Madagascar. 



