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tinctly pilose stems and ternate leaves, but weak secondary growths, or etiolate 

 specimens, can be misleading, and the fact that a small portion of a short primary 

 shoot, preserved with Brass 16069, bears leaves in threes, makes me suspect that 

 all the specimens are a little abnormal. 



I am unable to distinguish Lantana trifolia from L. meamsii, though some of 

 the varieties described under L. mearnsii are most certainly distinct, and should, 

 I think, be given specific rank. Lantana trifolia is a very variable species, but 

 I find that nearly all the American varieties (or forms) can be matched with Afri- 

 can specimens. It is just possible that the plant has been introduced into Africa; 

 in some areas it behaves as a pestilential weed. 



Lippia javanica (Burm. f.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 752. 1825; MeeUse, Blumea 5: 

 68. 1942. 



Verbena javanica Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 12. 1768. 



? Lippia asperifolia A. Rich, ex Marthe, Cat. PI. Jard. Med. Paris 67. 1801; Bak. in 



Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 280. 1900. 

 Lippia whytei Moldenke, Phytologia 1: 428. 1940. 



Zomba District: Zomba, frequent in Brachystegia woodland of mountain slopes, 

 shrub 1-2 m. high, loosely branched, aromatic, flowers white, 1100 m., May 26, 

 1946, 16029. A common plant in many parts of east tropical Africa, ranging from 

 Abyssinia south to Cape Province and west to Angola. ? Also in tropical Amer- 

 ica, India, and Australasia. 



I have followed A. D. J. Meeuse (Blumea 5: 68. 1942) in using the name Lippia 

 javanica for a plant better known to students of the African flora as Lippia asper- 

 ifolia A. Rich. A complete synonymy will be found in the article cited, to which 

 I have added Lippia whytei Moldenke, since this plant appears to me to be 

 scarcely more than a narrow-leaved, subsessile-flowered form of L. javanica. At 

 the same time, I should point out that the American and Indian specimens in the 

 Kew herbarium, labeled L. javanica, L. alba, and L. geminata, differ from the 

 African plant in having strictly geminate inflorescences, and larger pink or mauve 

 corollas. It may be that the type-specimen of L. javanica agrees with the Ameri- 

 can rather than the African material, but until it has been examined, I am not 

 prepared to make a change in the proposed nomenclature. Verbena globiflora 

 L'Herit. and Zappania odoratissima Scop, are, to judge from the figures given by 

 these authors, conspecific with the African plant. 



Lippia plicata Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, FL Trop. Afr. 5: 281. 1900. 



Lippia adoensis Hochst. ex Schauer var. multicaulis Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL l 4 : 

 £29. 1900. 



Lippia strobilijormis Moldenke, Phytologia 2: 317. 1947. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, occasional in moist gullies in Brachy- 

 stegia woodland, shrub about 1 m. high, branches few, erect, flower corolla white, 

 with yellow throat, 1400 m., July 25, 1946, 16927. North Nyasa District: Nchena- 

 chena, moist situations in Brachystegia woodland, shrub about 2 m. high, flowers 

 white with yellow throat, 13.40 m., Aug. 21, 1946, 17370. Tanganyika Territory, 

 Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, N. Rhodesia, and Angola. 



Clerodendrum rotundifolium Oliv. Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 132. pL 89. 1875; Bak. in 

 Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 308. 1900; Thomas, Bot. Jahrb. 68: 

 61. 1936. 



Clerodendron zambesiacum Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 309. 1900; Thomas, 

 Bot. Jahrb. 68: 62. 1936. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in rain-forest re growths, shrub 2 m. high, 

 fruit black when ripe, 1200 m., Sept. 24, 1946, 17790*; ibid., occasional in rain- 



