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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYASALAND 



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from a thick woody stock, flowers yellow, 1500 m., Sept. 13, 1946, 17635. French 

 Guinea and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, southwards to South Africa. 



Peddiea fischeri Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. (Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 3erl. 

 1891:) 310. 1892; Staner, Bull. Jard. 3ot. Brux. 13: 337. 1935. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, frequent on edges of rain-forest, tree 5-6 

 m. high, compact and shapely, leaves paler beneath, smooth and shining, flowers 

 green, tinged with red, 1650 m., July 31, 1946, 17052. Cholo District: Cholo 

 Mountain, common in rain-forest undergrowth, tree 3-5 m. high, flowers green, 

 fruits ovoid, fleshy, black when ripe, about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, 1300 m., 

 Sept. 20, 1946, 17685; ibid., common in rain-forest undergrowth, tree 5-6 m. high, 

 flowers green, 1200 m., Sept. 25, 1946, 17799. Widespread in tropical Africa. 



LORANTHACEAE 



Loranthus kalachariensis Schinz, 3ull. Herb. Boiss. 4 (append. 3): 53. 1896; 

 Sprague in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 280. 1910. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi, parasitic on Albizzia ? sp., shrub 1.5 m. tall, 

 branches drooping, perianth-tube pink, segments red, stamens and style red, na- 

 tive name (Chinyanja) kalisagi, 1100 m., Aug. 3, 1946, 17115. Portuguese East 

 Africa, Nyasaland, S. Rhodesia, Angola, Bechuanaland, Southwest Africa. 



Loranthus braunii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 20: 93. 1894; Sprague in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 303. 1910; Balle, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 369. 1948. 

 Loranthus mweroensis Bak. Kew Bull. 1895: 292. 1895; Sprague in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 304. 1910. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, in Brachystegia woodland, parasitic shrub 

 80 cm. high, flowers red (buds only), 1500 m., Aug. 3, 1946, Anthony 17124; ibid., 

 on Faurea sp. in Brachystegia woodland, shrub 1 m. tall, branches few, leaves 

 yellowish-green, thick and fleshy, flowers red, 1350 m., Aug. 5, 1946, 17130. 

 In W. Africa from the Gold Coast to Angola, extending eastwards to the Belgian 

 Congo, Uganda, N. and S. Rhodesia, and Nyasaland, for which this is the first 

 record. 



I am content to follow Balle (I.e.) in considering L. mweroensis Bak., to 

 which both the above specimens might be referred, as merely a local variant of 

 the widesp-ead L. braunii. 



Loranthus dregei Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. PI. Afr. Austr. 358 (1837) var. taborensis 

 (Engl.) Sprague in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 312. 1910. 

 Loranthus taborensis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 20: 106. 1894. 



Blantyre District: Blantyre, parasitic on various trees in Brachystegia wood- 

 lands, shrub about 1 m. high, stout, much branched, leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 stellate-hairy, flowers greenish-yellow, showy, 1100 m., June 17, 1946, 16336. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi, on a variety of host-trees in woodlands, shrub 1.5 m. 

 tall, leaf-nerves very prominent above, less so beneath, flowers greenish-yellow, 

 in leaf-axils and on the old wood, native name (Chinyanja) kalisagi, 1100 m., 

 Aug. 3, 1946, 17117. The variety in the Belgian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, 

 Nyasaland, and N. Rhodesia. 



Loranthus dregei Eckl. & Zeyh. var. sodenii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 20: 105. 1894; 

 Sprague in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 313. 1910. 

 Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, on Acacia sp., shrub, branches few, pendent, 

 about 1 m. long, flower-tube orange, lobes green, 200 m., Oct. 4, 1946, 17940. 

 The variety in Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa, 

 and Nyasaland. 



