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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [Vol. 9, No. 1 



Beckeropsis uniseta (Nees) Stapf ex Robyns, Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 9: 199. 1932; 

 in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 949. 1934. 

 Gymnothrix uniseta Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 66. 1841. 



Pennisetum unisetum (Nees) Benth. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 19: 47, 49. 1881. 

 P. kirkii Stapf Kew Bull. 1897: 286. 1897. 



Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, common in old gardens in rain-forest, 1200 

 m., native name:- "Sipi" (Chinyanja), Sept. 28, 1946, 17857. Throughout tropical 

 Africa and in Natal. 



Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 44. 1827 (Danske Vidensk. 

 Selsk. Skr. 3: 64. 1828); Stapf & Hubbard in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 1016. 

 1934. 



P ennisetum macrostachyum Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 563. 1849. 



Pennisetum benthamii Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 105. 1854. 



Gymnothrix nitens Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 552. 1863.. 



Pennisetum benthamii Steud. vars. nudum, samhesiense, ternatum Hack, ex Schinz, 



Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien 78: 400. 1905 (repr. p. 34). 

 P ennisetum nitens (Anderss.) Hack. Bol. Soc. Brot. 6: 142. 1888. 

 Pennisetum flexispica K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw^ Ost-Afr. C: 105. 1895. 

 P ennisetum flavicomum Leeke, Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 79: 45. 1907. 

 P ennisetum pallescens Leeke, Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 79: 47. 1907. 

 Pennisetum pruinosum Leeke, Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 79: 46. 1907. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi, on termite mound in Brachystegia woodland, 1350 

 m., August 2, 1946, 17100. Chikwawa District: Lower Mwanza River, common on 

 sandy beaches, 180 m., native name:- "senjeri" (Chinyanja), August 4, 1946, 

 17955. Frequent in tropical Africa from French Guinea eastwards to the Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan and southwards to Angola and Southern Rhodesia; introduced and 

 cultivated for fodder in many warm countries. 



ANDROPOGONEAE 



Eriochrysis pallida Munro in Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. 2. 440. 1868.; Stapf in 

 Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 93. 1917. 



Saccharum munroanum Hack, in D.C. Monogr. Phan. 6: 124. 1889. 

 Eriochrysis munroana (Hack.) Pilger, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 11: 648. 1932. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, in marshy Brachystegia woodland, 1400 

 m., July 28, 1946, 17008. Eastern Shari, Tanganyika Territory, Northern and 

 Southern Rhodesia, Angola, and South Africa. 



Both Hackel and Pilger treat E. pallida Munro as a nomen nudum, although 

 Munfo supplied a short specific description. 



Andropterum stolzii (Pilger) C. E. Hubbard, comb. nov. 



Ischaemum stolzii Pilger, Bot. Jahrb. 54: 280. 13 Mr 1917. 

 Andropterum variegatum Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 38. 1 Jl 1917. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, tangled stands on wet ground in woodland 

 gullies, 1350 m., August 1, 1946, 17086. Also in southern Tanganyika Territory 

 (Kyimbila District). 



Ischaemum purpurascens Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9' 32. 1917. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, gregarious on moist open riverbanks, 1500 m., 

 June 7, 1946, 16300. Tanganyika Territory, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, An- 

 gola, Transvaal, and Madagascar. 



Andropogon amplectens Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 104. 1841; Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. 9: 243. 1919. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, sporadic in Brachystegia woodland, 1400 

 m., July 24, 1946, 16917. Kenya Colony, southwards to Angola and South Africa, 



