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nately necessary name-change. Burmann (I.e.) refers back to the unmistakeable 

 plate and description by his father in Rar. PI. Afr. 242. pi. 88 (1739). 



Trema guineensis (Schumach. & Thonn.) Ficalho, PI. Uteis 261. 1884; Rendle 

 in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 2 : 11. 1916; Hauman, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 48. 

 pi. 8. 1948. 



Celtis guineensis Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 160. 1827. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, plentiful in secondary rain-forest, tree up to 

 25 m. high and to about 50 cm. in diameter at breast-height, flowers greenish, 

 1200 m., Sept. 22, 1946, 17743. A tree of secondary seres in forest, very common 

 and widespread in tropical Africa; also in Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, the 

 Seychelles, and Arabia. 



MORACEAE 



Ficus capensis Thunb. Diss. Ficus 6, 13. 1786; Hutch, in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 6 a : 101. 1916; Lebrun & Boutique, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 116. 1948. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, in rain-forest, tree 15 m. high and 40 cm. 

 in diameter, receptacles green mottled with white, borne on much branched leaf- 

 less shoots over 1 m. long pendent on the stem, sap milky, 1400 m., July 30, 

 1946, 17033. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, occasional in rain-forest, tree 25 m. 

 high, 80 cm. in diameter at breast-height, leaf-nerves whitish, fruit soft, brownish- 

 red, depressed-globose, about 3-3.5 cm. long and 3.5-4 cm. wide, native name 

 (Chinyanja) tundu, 1200 m., Sept. 24, 1946, 17775. Widespread in South and tropi- 

 cal Africa. 



Ficus vallis-choudae Del. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 20: 94. 1843; Hutch, in Prain, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 6 2 : 103. 1916; Lebrun & Boutique, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 119. 1948. 



Cholo District: Cholo, common in rain-forests, tree to 30 m. tall and 60 cm. 

 in diameter, sap milky, yellowish, fruit to 4.5 cm. long and in diameter, obovate- 

 globose, solitary, native name (Chinyanja) tundu, 1100 m., Sept. 29, 1946, 17875. 

 Widespread in tropical Africa, but not previously recorded from Nyasaland. 



Mr. Brass* specimen shows the receptacle more densely pubescent than usual 

 and it may prove to be varietally separable from F. vallis-choudae. 



Ficus gnaphalocarpa (Miq.) Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 270. 1851; 

 Hutch, in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 1 : 104. 1916; Lebrun & Boutique, Fl. Congo 

 Beige 1: 119. 1948. 

 Syfomorus gnaphalocarpa Miq. Lond. Jour. Bot. 7: 113. 1848. 



Kota-kota District: Kasabula's Village, occasional in old secondary forest, 

 tree 12 m. high and 35 cm. in diameter, deciduous, young leaves only, receptacles 

 mostly on old wood below leaves, green flecked with white, sap milky, yellow, 

 native name (Chichewa) mkuju, 1000 m., Aug. 3, 1946, 17122. Chia area, occa- 

 sional on alluvial soil on dry lake plain, tree to 20 m. high and 60 cm. in diam- 

 eter, mature receptacles 2.5-3.5 cm. long and 3-4 cm. in diameter, depressed- 

 globose, soft, yellow, solitary or in pairs in leaf-axils, native name (Chinyanja) 

 tundu, 480 m., Sept. 7, 1946, 17566. Widespread in tropical Africa. 



Ficus exasperata Vahl, Enum. 2: 197. 1806; Hutch, in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6 2 : 

 110. 1916; Lebrun & Boutique, Fl. Congo Beige 1: 126. 1948. 

 Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, locally plentiful in rain-forest, tree 25 m. 

 high and up to 75 cm. in diameter at breast-height, receptacles immature, leaves 

 stiff, scabrous, 1200 m., Sept. 24, 1946, 27792. Widespread in tropical Africa, 

 and said to occur in Arabia. 



