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Lower Mwanza River, frequent on sandy beaches, herb, flowers white, 180 m., 

 Oct. 3, 1946, 17933. Tropical Africa, widespread; also Madagascar, Comoro Is- 

 lands, and Arabia. 



Both the above specimens are annotated by Dr. Suessenguth as a form with 

 oblong-lanceolate leaves. 



Celosia loandensis Bak. Kew Bull. 1897: 277. 1897. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, one example in dry brushy forest of elevated 

 river-plain, ascending herb 60 cm. high, flowers white, 200 m., Oct. 2, 1946, 

 17893. Belgian Congo, N. Rhodesia, Angola, and now found for the first time in 

 Nyasaland. 



Cyathula uncinulata (Schrad.) Schinz in De Wild. PI. Bequaert. 5: 386. 1932. 



Achyranthes uncinulata Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Goett. 1. 1833. {Reference from Schinz, 

 I.e., and Ind. Kew.) 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, scrambling on forest borders, shrub 2-3 

 m. high, flowers greenish, 1500 m., July 29, 1946, 17025. Cholo District: Cholo 

 Mountain, occasional in rain-forest regrowths, scrambling shrub 3-5 m. high, 1200 

 m., Sept. 20, 1946, 17711. Widespread in East Africa, extending south to the 

 Transvaal. 



Cyathula cylindrica Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 328. 1849. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Likubula-Tuchila Divide, occasional on 

 forest paths, scrambling, more or less fleshy shrub, flowers greenish, 2000 m., 

 July 9, 1946, 16752. Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, abundant on shrubby 

 margins of rain-forest, shrub 2 m. high, scrambling, much branched, flowers green, 

 filaments yellow, 1600 m., July 31, 1946, 17060. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to South 

 Africa and Madagascar. 



Cyathula cf. mannii Bak. Kew Bull. 1897: 278. 1897. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, plentiful in rain-forest regrowth, shrub 2-3 

 m. high, large, scrambling, somewhat fleshy, flowers green, 1450 m., June 5, 

 1946, 16265. British Cameroons, Fernando Po, Kenya, and Nyasaland. 



Dr. Suessenguth writes "vix discernenda a C. cylindrica Moq." 



Aerva leucura Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 302. 1849. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, by roadsides in Acacia albida woodland, herb 

 80-100 cm. high, flowers green, 200 m., Oct. 3, 1946, 17918. Uganda to South 

 Africa. 







Achyranthes aspera L. Sp. PI. 204 (1753) var. aspera f. rubella Suesseng. Bull. 

 Jard. Bot. Brux. 15: 56. 1938. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, frequent in rain-forest regrowth, subscandent 

 herb 1-3 m. high, inflorescence purplish-pink, 1200 m., Sept. 21, 1946, 17708. 

 The species widespread in the tropics of the Old World; also found in the New 

 World (? introduced); the form rare in Africa (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Ruanda- 

 Urundi) and not apparently recorded previously for Nyasaland. 



Achyranthes bidentata Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 545. 1825. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, abundant in primary rain-forest, shrub up to 

 2 m. high, stamens and pistil red, 1300 m., Sept. 20, 1946, 17661. Tropics of the 

 Old World, but, although widespread in tropical Africa, apparently very local and 

 confined to forest-zones. 



BASELLACEAE 



Basella alba L. Sp. PI. 272. 1753; Bak. & C. B. Clarke in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 94. 1909; hauman, Fl. Congo Beige 2: 129. 1951. 



^All determinations by Dr. K. Suessenguth, Munich. 



