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3-4 cm. in diameter, leaves reddish, very thick and fleshy, horizontally placed 

 on the stem (not in a rosette), peduncle erect, reddish, usually once forked, flow- 

 ers red, apex of lobes greenish-yellow, 1600 m., July 27, 1946, 16991. Nyasaland 

 and N. Rhodesia. 



Aloe arborescens Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 3. 1768; Berger, Pflanzenreich 

 33(4«(3-2)) : 288# 1908; ReynoldS) Aloes S. Afr. 407. 1950. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; southwest ridge, common and conspicuous 

 on or amongst rocks, tree or shrub 2-5 m. high, stem branched, leaves falcate, 

 sometimes very strongly so (colour photos.), perianth red, tipped with green, 

 filaments yellow, anthers orange, peduncle ascending from the rosette of leaves, 

 2400 m., June 28, 1946, 16525. Nyasaland and N. Rhodesia, southwards to South 

 Africa. 



Aloe chimanimaniensis Christian, Fl. PI. S. Afr. 16: pi. 639. 1936; Reynolds, 

 Aloes S. Afr. 220. 1950. 

 Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, frequent in semi-shade in rain-forest, 

 shrub 140 cm. high, stem simple, erect, 20 cm. long and 7 cm. in diameter, leaves 

 to 65 cm. long, flaccid, thick and fleshy, pale green, flower-segments pale red 

 with paler margins and yellowish tips, peduncle ascending, 70 cm. long, panicle 

 120 cm. long, branches 8, ascending, 1400 m., July 29, 1946, Vernay 17029. 

 Nchisi, occasional in gullies in Brachystegia woodland, shrub about 2 m. high, 

 stem erect, unbranched, leaves to 90 cm. long, flaccid, green, mottled with white, 

 inflorescence 160 cm. long, peduncle 90 cm. long, purplish, glaucous, flowers 

 orange-red with greenish-yellow tips, fruit inflated, immature, green, 1350 m., 

 Aug. 1, 1946, 17083. New to Nyasaland; previously known from S. Rhodesia and 

 the Transvaal. 



These plants seem to differ from A. chimanimaniensis solely in the yellow 

 or greenish-yellow tips to the flowers. A. menyharthii Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 459 (1898) is very close but has shorter pedicels only up to 18 

 mm. long. 



Aloe christianii Reynolds, Jour. S. Afr. Bot. 2: 171. pi. 20. 1936; Aloes S. Afr. 

 309. 1950. 



Dedza District: Dedza, several examples in Brachystegia woodland, 2.5 m. 

 high, stem thick, erect, simple, about 20 cm. high, leaves flat, spreading, stiff, 

 all but the base deeply channelled, brownish-green, about 70 cm. long, inflores- 

 cence paniculate, peduncle thick, tapering, brownish-purple, branches ascending, 

 flowers orange-red with yellowish tips (photos.), 1500 m., July 23, 1946, 16884. 

 Tanganyika Territory, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, and N. and S. Rhodesia. 



Aloe mawii Christian, Jour. S. Afr. Bot. 6: 186. pi. 23. 1940, e descr. & icon. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, occasional on rocky open bluffs, in both very 

 dry and very moist situations, shrub about 1.5 m. high, stem simple or once 

 forked, leaves very fleshy, the margins on the whole blade reddish (photos.), 

 peduncles reflexed, the flowering part more or less horizontal, peduncles below 

 the flowers 40-60 cm. long, perianth orange-red, filaments purple, anthers orange, 

 1500 m., June 5, 1946, 16273. Endemic to Nyasaland. 



There is no material of this species at Kew for comparison. 



Anthericum sp. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, one example on a shady rock-ledge, herb 40 

 cm. high, flowers white, 1500 m., June 2, 1946, 16157*. 



Very possibly this is the same as Purves 106 and Lawrence 227 at Kew, both 

 from Zomba. However Brass 16157 is too incomplete for certainty, and since it is 



