10 Annals of the South African Museum. 



There were 4 species of Harveya, 4 species of Striga, and 2 species of 

 Melasma. Insectivorous plants were represented by 2 species of 

 Utricularia and 2 species of Drosera. 



I should not consider this a floral region of great beauty where the 

 size and colouring of the flowers are concerned. This conclusion has 

 been arrived at from a study of the flowers of the various species, 

 and from an attempt to group them (excluding the Cyperaceae and 

 Gramineae) into the following three Classes,* viz. : 



I. Large, gaily-coloured flowers, or when a number of small flowers 

 are grouped in large and conspicuous heads. 



II. Medium-sized flowers. 



III. Inconspicuous flowers. 



Class I. (e.g. Srttnsvigia, Tpomoea, Gladiolus, etc.), approximately 

 46 per cent. 



Class II. (e.g. Ranunculus, Silene, Erica, Sutera, etc.), approxi- 

 mately 46 per cent. 



Class III. (e.g. Rhus, Celastrus, Phytolacca, etc.), approximately 

 8 per cent. 



The great bulk of the species produce dry fruits, either dehiscent or 

 iiidehiscent ; fleshy fruits are only found in less than 5 per cent, of 

 the total number of species. The dry dehiscent and dry indehiscent 

 fruits are represented in about equal proportions. The Compositae, 

 Gramineae, Cyperaceae, etc., are the largest representatives of the 

 latter group (included among these are those fruits such as are found 

 in the Umbelliferae and Labiatae which split up into one-seeded 

 portions), while the Liliaceae, Leguminosae, Orchidaceae, Scropliu- 

 lariaceae, etc., contain the largest number of species which produce 

 the former type of fruit. It is not within the province of this paper 

 to go into any further details regarding the fruit and seeds ; it will 

 suffice to mention that such forms of fruit as (i) hairy fruits (e.y. 

 Clematis, Compositae), (ii) Spinv fruits (e. ;/. some Boraginaceae), 

 (iii) winged fruits (e.g. Rum ex) are met with. Hairy seeds occur in 

 the Asclepiadaceae, Salix, and Eriospermum ; winged seeds in many of 

 the Monocotyledons (e.g. Gladiolus, Urginea, etc.). 



NATIVE NAMES AND USES OF PLANTS. 



In an interesting paper f on "Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men," 

 the author in the Introduction states : " It is by no means an 



* O. Stapf, " The Flora of Kinabalu," ' Trans. Linn. Soc.,' ser. 2, vol. iv, 1894. 

 t Rev. Alfred Bryant, " Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men," ' Annals of the 

 Natal Government Museum,' ii, 1 (1909). 



