92 Floristik, Geographie, Systematik etc. 



Transvaal in the Annais of the Transvaal Museum, Vol. III. N*^. 3, 

 a few omissions have been discovered and several additional species 

 found. These are embodied in the above paper and several impor- 

 tant additions to the flora of extra- tropical South Africa appear. 



E. M. Jesson (Kew). 



Caballero, A., Enumeracion de las plantes herborisadas 

 en el Rif. (Mem. R. Soc. esp. Hist. nat. VIII. Mem. 6a. Madrid, 

 1915.) 



Dans cette publication sont enumeres les especes recoltees par 

 Caballero dans les environs de Melilla, Nador et Cabo de 

 Agora. L'auteur dans une courte introduction decrit l'aspect de la 

 Vegetation du groupe. 



Le catalogue comprend 3 especes de cryptogames vasculaires, 

 1 gymnospermique, 57 monocotyledones et 334 dicotyledones. Sont 

 decrites les nouvelles especes Tmvarix Lagtmae recoltee dans les 

 sable de Cabo de aqua, Lavatera Cavanillesii de la meme localite, 

 Bupleururn De Buerni pres de Melilla, Thymus v1/w/^/s// de Melilla 

 et Nador, Stachys Lagascae ä Posada de Cabo Moreno pres 

 Melilla, Filago Bolivarii, et un Hedypnois, exemplaire unique. peut 

 etre espece nouvelle aussi. Quelques varietes sont decrites, ISigella 

 damascena v. n. oligogyna] Planta minor, 8 — 12 ramosa; pistello, 

 2 — 4 carpellare; Senecio crassifolius Wüld. , v .n. gtganteus; Ptcridüim 

 Mtermedmm Schultz v. n. huniile. J. Henriques. 



Dümmer, R. A., Ayctotis mirabilis Dümmer, sp. nov. (Jour. Ro}'". 

 Hort. Soc. XL. 1. p. 81 and 82. 1914.) 



Though it has been averred that South Africa is devoid of 

 indigenous annuals, the author considers this Statement to be falla- 

 cious and enumerates a number of such plants, which form conspi- 

 cuous features in the Vegetation. One of the m.ost interesting is the 

 "Namaqualand Daisy", an annual which is reputed to occur in con- 

 siderable abundance in the vicinity of Kli p fönt ein , Little Na- 

 maqualand. As a matter of fact its distribution appears to be 

 somewhat local. for it is only from a Single specimen presented to 

 Kew in 1902 that a description ha^ been drawn up and the plant 

 named Arctotis rnirahilis. Unfortunatel}^ no leaves were present on 

 this specimen, the flowers however are of extraordinary size and 

 may therefore be of floricultural value. E. M. Jesson (Kew . 



Dümmer, R. A., The South African Gerberns. (Journ. Roy 

 Hort. Soc. XL. 2. p. 236-262. 1914.) 



The genus Gerhera, as at present conceived, comprises approxi- 

 mately 45 species, of which 25 are scattered throughout South 

 Africa, especially in the coastal districts of Cape Colony. Des- 

 criptions are given of these species and the following new names 

 occur: 



Gerbera ferruginea D.C. var. linearis Dümmer (comb, nov.), G. 

 lanata Dümmer (comb, nov.), G. piloselloides Cassini, var. transvaalen- 

 sis Dümmer (var. nov.), G. plantaginea Harvey, var. pusilla Dümmer 

 (var. nov.), G. glandulosq Dümmer (sp. nov.), G. viridifoUa C. H. 

 Schnitze, var. Woodii Dümmer (var. nov), G. aurantiaca C. H. 

 Schultze, var. alba Dümmer (var. nov.), var. Wyliei Dümmer (var. 



