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Transvaal centres at wjiich he collected were Trigardst'ontein and 

 "Page's Hotel" on the high veld, the former in the Betlial district; 

 Pretoria ; the Eland's Pviver on the Pretoria-Pietersbiug road within 

 the Pretoria district ; Klip-pan on the Springbok Flats, in the Water- 

 berg district ; Streydpoort in the Makapans-bei-g : and at the Houtljosch 

 in the Zoutpansberg district. Parts of his collections were worked up 

 by Szysz3'lowicz and the Polypetahv publisiied in the Polypetahf. 

 Eehmantiiana- (1887-88), but the work was never completed. His 

 sets were distributed widely, one being at Kew, another at Zurich, 

 while some specimens are found in South African herbaria. 



Dr. Wilms was an apothecary resident in Lydenbuig, who col- 

 lected several new or rare plants. The immediate \icinity of the 

 village of Lydenburg is uninteresting, botanically, but lie found excel- 

 lent things in the Waterval Valley and i)i kloofs of the Steenkamps- 

 berg a few miles to the west, ami of the Drakensberg a little to the 

 east. 



Dr. K. Schlechter made some valuable collections in different parts 

 of the country, from the Elands-spruit Mountains and other points on 

 the Delagoa Bay line, to Pretoria and the Houtboschberg. His sets 

 have been widely distributed, the best being, I understand, at Zuricli, 

 while a small collection is in the Pretoria Museum. Nearly complete 

 sets are in the herbarium of Dr. Bolus and in the Albany Museum. 

 Unfortunately the main sets did not get to Kew, which Jias made it 

 difficult for the workers on the Flora (Jape'at^iti to deal with Schlechter's 

 many new species. 



Mr. William Nelson, a nurseryman of Johannesburg, made a small, 

 but interesting, collection in the Waterberg and Zoutpansberg, ex- 

 tending north to the Spelonken, and also south along the Vaal 

 River. 



Mons. Henri Junod, missionary, collected extensively within the 

 last few years around his mission station at Siiiluvane in the eastern 

 Zoutpansberg. His specimens are, unfortunately, often scrappy and 

 in some cases unlit for determination ; most of them went to Zurich or 

 Geneva, and some have been named by Dr. Schinz. 



Mr. E. E. Galpin, now a resident of Queenstown, lived in Barber- 

 ton from 1889 to 1892, and during that time collected some 975 

 plants. These were largely worked up at Kew, and yielded a great 

 manv novelties. The Hora of Barberton is, in consequence of his 

 eflbrts, better known than that of perhaps any othei' locality in the 

 Transvaal. It is remarkably rich in species, owing to the fact tliat 

 within a few miles the topography varies between 1100 and nearly 

 6000 ft., both eastern and western slopes of the Drakensberg being 

 "witliin easy access, and all foin- of oui- zones of vegetation meeting in 

 the vicinity. 



Mr. Galpin imparted some of his botanical enthusiasm and know- 

 ledge to a fellow-townsman, Mr. George Thoincroft, and he in tuin is 

 passing it on to his cliildren, who are collecting for the TiansAaal 

 Mu*eum. 



Dr. Bolus has made collecting tiips to the Transvaal, on at least 



