THE ORDER PRLMULINES (MYRSINACE/E, PRIMU- 

 LACE^, AND PLUMBAGINACE.^), AS REPRE- 

 SENTED IN THE TRANSA'AAL. 



By Inez C. Verdoorn, 

 Division of Botany, Pretoria. 



With 9 Maps. 



Read July it, 1919. 



When examining the material in the National Herbarium, 

 Pretoria, of the above families, I noticed that very few Transvaal 

 localities were given for the species in the " Flora Capensis." This 

 led me to examine all the available material in the South African 

 herbaria, with a view to extending our knowledge of their 

 geographical distribution. Mrs. R. Pott, the Curator of the 

 Transvaal Museum Herbarium, very kindly allowed me to borrow 

 the material in the Herbarium under her care ; Dr. vSchonland, 

 of the Albanv Museum, Grahamstown, sent me on loan two 

 species represented in his Herbarium which I had not seen; 

 and ^Irs. F. Bolus, B.A., and the Director of the S.A. Museum 

 gave me references from their respective herbaria of species 

 recorded from the Transvaal. 



The examination of all the material has established the fact 

 that in the Transvaal we have 11 species, representing the 

 order Primulines, made up as follows: MyrsinacccB (3 species), 

 Primulacece (6 species), and Plumhaginacece (2 species). Burtt- 

 Davy quotes 10 species from the Transvaal; the species he does 

 notment\on\s LysimachiaafricanaYA^gX. In the "Flora Capensis" 

 only five species are recorded from the Transvaal ; no Transvaal 

 localities are given for Plumbago capensis. Lysimachia africwia, 

 AnagaUis nana, Smnolus valerandi, nor \Iyr.<;ine melanophlceos ; 

 neither is the genus Samolns recorded from the Transvaal. 



It is difficult to understand why Wright did not record 

 L. africana Engler, in the " Flora Capensis." This species is 

 mentioned in the Pflanscnreich (a work to which Wright refers 

 under L. paniflora), by Pax and Kunth, as being collected in 



