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forest regrowths, shrub 2-3 m. high, fruit black, 1200 m., Sept. 25, 1946, 17801*. 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 3elgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, 

 and Nyasaland. 



C. zambesiacum is not specifically separable from C. rotundifolium; see 

 Brenan, Check-Lists For. Trees & Shrubs Brit. Emp. 5 (Tanganyika Territory, 

 Part 2): 631 (1949), where I have made this reduction. 



Clerodendrum swynnertonii S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 166. 1911; Thomas, 

 3ot. Jahrb. 68: 66. 1936. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, among rocks in Brachystegia woodland, 

 shrub 3 m. high, flowers dry, apparently white, fruiting calyx red, 1600 m., July 

 26, 1946, 16971; ibid., scrambling in rain-forest, shrub 4 m. high, corolla white, 

 filaments pinkish, anthers black, flowers honeysuckle-scented, 1550 m., July 

 30, 1946, 17038. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, in primary rain-forest, climbing 

 shrub to 6 m. high, fruits glossy green, dark, calyx purplish-green, 1400 m., Sept. 

 26, 1946, 17831. Tanganyika Territory and S. Rhodesia; now new to Nyasaland. 



Clerodendrum uncinatum Schinz, Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 31: 206. 1890. 



Cyclonema spinescens Oliv. Jour. Linn. Soc. ijot. 15: 96. 1876; non C. spinescens 



Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. ^62. 1861. 

 Kalaharia spinipes Baill. Hist. PI. 11: 111. 1892. 



Clerodendron spinescens (Oliv.) Gurke, Bot. Jahrb. 18: 180. 1893; Bak. in Thiselton- 



Dyer, PI. Trop. Afr. 5: 313. 1900; Thomas, Bot. Jahrb. 68: 89. 1936. 

 Kalaharia spinescens (Oliv.) Gurke in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 340. 1895. 



Lilongwe District: Lilongwe, occasional on roadsides in open woodland, 

 shrub 1 m. high, flowers red, showy, about 1400 m., July 23, 1946, 16881. Belgian 

 Congo, Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, N. Rhodesia, Angola, Bechuanaland, 

 Southwest Africa, and the Transvaal. 



The epither spinescens cannot be used for this species, since Cyclonema 

 spinescens Oliv. is a later homonym. 



Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 45-48. 1899. 

 Verbena nodiflora L. Sp. PI. 20. 1753. 



Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2: 15. 1803; Bak. in This el ton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 5: 279. 1900. 



Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, occasional on sandy beaches, pros- 

 trate herb, stems to 1 m. long, flowers purple, 180 m., Oct. 6, 1946, 17998. Wide- 

 spread throughout the tropics, subtropics, and warmer regions of the world, occur- 

 ring in the Mediterranean region and as an alien as far north as Le Havre in 

 France. 



Priva cordifolia (L.f.) Druce, 49 Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Rep. 1916 (suppl. 2): 641. 

 (1917) var. flabelliformis Moldenke, Repert. Sp. Nov. 41: 47. 1936. 

 Priva leptostachya Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 7: 70. 1806, nom. illegit. cum 

 syn. Tertula aspera Roxb. ex Willd.; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 

 285. 1900, pro parte. 



Cholo District: Nswadzi River, common on grassy beaches, herb 1 m. high, 

 flowers white, 840 m., Sept. 27, 1946, 17847. The species in India and Ceylon, 

 the variety in Belgian Congo, Uganda, Tanganyika Territory, S. Rhodesia, and 

 now new to Nyasaland; P. cordifolia var. abyssinica (Jaub. & Spach) Moldenke 

 extends from Arabia to South Africa, and has been found in Nyasaland, so that 

 Mr. Brass* specimen is a new record for Nyasaland only for the variety. 



^Buchnera cordifolia L. f. Suppl. PI. 287. 1781. 



