ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE RECORDED 

 FLORA OF THE TRANSVAAL AND SWAZILAND. 



(July ist, 191 1. to June 30th, 1912.) 



By Joseph Burtt-Daw, F.L.S., F.R.G.S. 



In a country like South Africa, which is still to so great an 

 extent new ground from the scientific point of view, and where so 

 much " spade work " has yet to be done before we can generalise 

 to any extent, it is desirable that workers should be kept in touch 

 with the work done from year to year in those branches in which 

 they are interested. 



This is of importance not only to the professional, but also to 

 the lay worker, who often lacks other facilities for keeping 

 informed of the progress being made. To the student of syste- 

 matic and geographical botany it would be of great assistance 

 could he find gathered together in one place a list of the species 

 new to the phyto-geographical region in which he is particularly 

 interested, together with notes of extension of recorded distribu- 

 tion, and ecological notes on species already known to occur. In 

 my own work I have greatly felt the need for some such list, 

 and have had to fall back on my own efforts to prepare it. As 

 far as I have them, the records up to the present year have been 

 brought together in the form of a Check-list, and to this Mrs. 

 Pott-Leendertz has added the additional records contained in the 

 Transvaal Museum Herbarium. This list was published in the 

 Annals of the Transvaal Museum, Vol. iii, No. 3. 



Since then a few omissions have been discovered, and several 

 additional species have been found in working over material 

 collected. As far as these are known they have been embodied in 

 the following notes, which include several important additions to 

 the flora of extra-tropical South Africa. 



The twenty-nine species marked with an asterisk are addi- 

 tions to the Check-list, bringing the total up to 3,298 species and 

 923 genera. 



In the following notes I have departed from the phyto- 

 geographical terminology of the Flora Capensis, which includes 

 most of the Transvaal in its " Kalahari Region." I have for a 

 long time realised that it includes parts of several quite distinct 

 regions. For present purposes it is sufficient to indicate them 

 broadly as follows : — 



1. The Grass-steppe Region of the Transvaal Highveld, 

 which extends into the Eastern Orange Free State and includes 

 the Uplands of Natal. 



2. The Limpopo Basin Region of the Transvaal Bushveld, 

 which extends northward towards the Zambesi and north-west- 

 ward through the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and includes the 

 Lebombo Flats in Swaziland. 



3. The Southern Bechuanaland Region, which includes the 



