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occurs in Africa and America only; and 1 species occurs in Africa, Asia, and Europe, 
but neither in Australia nor America. 
The majority of the genera represented in the enumeration are well-known types, 
with a wide geographical distribution both in the eastern and western hemispheres, and 
with numerous species; of the genera previously known only 4 are peculiar to Africa, 
of which one is exclusively tropical, one both tropical and extratropical southwards, and 
two were only known previously to be south extratropical genera. One new genus is 
named and fully described below. 
The five numbers which are too imperfect for determination are as follows :— 
A barren leafy shoot, with sessile leaves, having pellucid veinlets, rather suggestive of 
a simple-leaved species of Rhus: Serpa Pinto, no. 30. 
A branch without either flowers or fruit, but with simple alternate oval petiolate 
stipulate leaves 13-2 inches long, having parallel erecto-patent lateral veins ; the plant is 
said to produce an edible fruit; nativename “ Ulama;” from the high plateau: Serpa 
Pinto, no. 11. 
A barren branch, with crowded narrow leaves: Serpa Pinto, no. 26. 
A portion only of a fruit, from the high plateau; native name “ Sanarubia " : Serpa 
Pinto, no. 31. 
A grass, the upper part of a plant in very young flower-bud : Serpa Pinto, no. 38. 
Enumeration of Plants collected. 
POLYGALE.JE. 
1. PoLYGALA KRUMANINA, Burchell, MS. in Herb. Kew. P. perennis suffruticosa ramo- 
sissima procumbens trium vel quatuor pollicum alta, ramis teretibus fibratis, ramulis 
foliosis puberulis pilis brevibus crispulis, foliis alternis lineari-spathulatis, 1-2(-2)- | 
pollicaribus subcoriaceis puberulis vel glabratis uninerviis apice mucronulatis vel 
obtusis basi angustatis sessilibus margine incrassato-revolutis, floribus lateralibus 
solitariis (vel in eymis brevibus paucifloris dispositis) bracteatis foliis subzequantibus, 
pedicellis brevibus, bracteis caducis, sepalis integris interioribus obovatis apiculatis 
albido-viridibus demum albescentibus carina paulum brevioribus, sepalis interi- 
oribus inter se liberis, petalis lateralibus 3 long. сагіпге, carina i-pollicari dorso 
cristata, crista conspicua multifido-lobata, staminum filamentis superne liberis, 
capsula ovali $-pollicari subglabra sepalis interioribus sublatiore apice emarginata 
sinu ovato lobis ovatis, seminibus pilosis i-pollicaribus, caruncula yo-pollicari 3- 
appendiculata. 
This species has been previously obtained in the southern part of the Kalahari region 
of Extratropical South Africa, in the year 1812, by Burchell, nos. 2425, 2474, 2599, as 
under; in Burchell’s specimens the leaves range up to two thirds of an inch in length. 
Burchell, no. 2425 : near the ruins of the Bachapin town on the Krüman, November 
16, 1812. A specimen of this number in the Kew Herbarium is marked by Burchell as 
having been seen by the eldest DeCandolle; the plant, however, does not appear to have 
been taken up in DeCandolle’s * Prodromus," nor in the * Flora Capensis’ of Harvey and 
Sonder, of which the first volume (the one containing the genus Polygala) was published 
