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2. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Flora of South-West Africa. 



1. List of Grasses. By Miss S. GARABEDIAN, B.A., 

 Botanical Assistant. 



(With Plate VIII.) 



[UNDER the above title it is proposed to issue the results of the Botanical 

 Survey of South- West Africa undertaken by the South African 

 Museum in conjunction with the Administration of South- West Africa. 

 The papers will be published from time to time as the material is 

 worked up. 



As in the case of the collateral series of Reports on the Fauna, the 

 country has been divided into regions for comparative purposes. 

 Although the limits of these regions are somewhat arbitrary and 

 vague, yet they follow in a general way the topography . Five regions 

 are adopted : (Great) Namaqualand, from the Orange River to about 

 latitude 23 S. ; Damar aland, from about 23 S. to a line running 

 roughly from Franzfontein to Namutoni on the Etosha Pan ; Ovambo- 

 land, the sandy flat country stretching from the Etosha Pan to the 

 Portuguese border and from the Okavango River on the east to the 

 mountainous country on the west called the Kaokoveld, which lies 

 between Franzfontein and the Cunene River ; Namib, the sand-dune 

 belt which stretches along the coast between the mouths of the 

 Orange and Cunene Rivers. See map at end of paper. EDITOR.] 



The following list of grasses has been compiled from various collec- 

 tions, and with a few exceptions the specimens quoted have been seen 

 by the compiler, and representatives of all but a small minority are 

 in the Herbarium of the South African Museum. 



The part traversed has been divided up roughly into the follow- 

 ing geographical regions : (Great) Namaqualand, Damaraland, and 

 Ovamboland, thus including the Orange River, about 29 lat., to the 

 Cunene River, 17 lat., and extending to about 20 long. E. Neither 

 the region known as the Namib along the coast line nor the Kaokoveld 

 are included. It is intended to issue a supplementary list of the grasses 

 of these regions later. 



Of the collectors whose names appear frequently in this paper, the 

 late Dr. H. H. W. Pearson, of the S.A. College, in the Percy Sladen 



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