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PLANTS COLLECTED IN NYASALAND 



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validum 0.3*0.4 ram. longum abrupte contracta, et superne in rostrum conicum 0.25 

 mm. longum abrupte contracta. Stylus basi incrassatus in apice nucis persistens. 



NYASALAND: Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, marshy ground in Brachy- 

 stegia woodland, 1400 m., July 27, 1946, 16980. 

 Fuirena chlorocarpa Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 2: 159. 1884. 



Zomba District; Zomba Plateau, several tufts in a rock crevice on side of a 

 waterfall, 1500 m., June 6, 1946, 16277. Tropical and S. Africa, Madagascar. 

 New to Nyasaland. 



Fuirena ciliaris (L.) Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: 184. 1820. 



Scirpus ciliaris L. Mant. 182. 1771. 



Fuirena glomerata Lam. Tab. Encyc. 1: 150. 1791. 



Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, occasional on moist silt, plant blu- 

 ish green, forming flattish clumps, 180 m., Oct. 4, 1946, 17970. Old World tropics. 

 New to Nyasaland. 



Ascolepis capensis (Kunth) Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 2: 164. 1884. 

 Platylepis capensis Kunth, Enum. PI. 2: 269. 1837. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, scattered over a quaking bog, 1770 m., May 

 31, 1946, 16111. Tropical and S. Africa. 



Costularia natalensis C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 274. 1898. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, frequent on flood banks 

 of a grassland stream, forming large clumps, 1820 m., July 5, 1946, 16673; common 

 locally on grassy ridges, 1890 m., July 8, 1946, 16740. Transvaal, Natal. Genus 

 hitherto known only from S. Africa and Madagascar. 



The combination Costularia natalensis C. B. Clarke was first published, but 

 without description, in Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 658 (1894). 



Scleria racemosa Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 7: 6. 1806. 



Ophryoscleria racemosa Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2: 183. 1842. 



Kota-kota District: Chia area, moist banks of waterholes, gregarious in large 

 clumps, 480 m., Sept. 5, 1946, 17533. Tropical Africa, Madagascar. 



Scleria pulchella Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 2: 168. 1884. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, gregarious on a sunny seepage slope; plant 

 strikingly citronella scented; 1750 m., May 31, 1946, 16108. Angola. 



Coleochloa virgata (K. Schum.) Nelmes, Kew Bull. 1953: 381. 1953. 

 Eriospora virgafia K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw. 6st.-A£r. C: 128. 1895. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, frequent on shallow rocky 

 soil on grasslands, bright green clumps about 1 m. high, immature, 2100 m., July 3, 

 1946, 16653; forming massive tussocks on open grasslands, peaty fibrous base of 

 tussocks crowded into vase-shaped ferns, 1890 m., July 8, 1946, 16737. Tangan- 

 yika Territory. New to Nyasaland. 



These gatherings agree with Schuman's description so far as it goes, but be- 

 cause of its inadequacy and in the absence of the type, presumably destroyed in 

 the war, one cannot be quite sure about the determination. 



Coleochloa oliveri (Bock.) Gilly, Brittonia 5: 14. 1943. 

 Trilepis oliveri Bock. Cyp. Nov. 1: 38. 1888. 



Eriospora oliveri (Bock.) C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 8: 513. 1902. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, on open rock slopes, 

 plant greyish, clumped, I860 m., June 26, 1946, 16438; abundant on shallow rocky 



