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These, with his herbarium of some thirty to forty thousand 

 mounted sheets, with an endowment for its maintenance and con- 

 tinuance, he has bequeathed to the South African College, where 

 he had in 1903 been the means of founding the Chair of Botany, 

 so ably held by Dr. H. H. W. Pearson. To the same College he 

 has left £48,000 for various scholarships, and eventually his landed 

 property, with an additional considerable bequest. 



It was in September, 1908, at the close of the period of the 

 great financial distress caused by the Boer War, that, under the 

 strain of his anxious duties as Director of two Insurance and Trust 

 Companies, Trustee of the South African Museum, South African 

 Library, and of the South African College, Bolus's health gave way, 

 and he was forced for a month or two to relinquish almost every- 

 thing. With undaunted courage, however, even after his illness, 

 he resumed most of his offices, w^orking, although with ever- 

 increasing difficulty, right up to the evening before his death, 

 when he corrected the final proofs of the last pages of his book. 



No account of Dr. Bolus would be complete without some 

 mention of his keen delight and good taste in literature, and 

 especially of his deep love for poetry. From his early boyhood 

 he had learnt it by heart, and he continued to do so to a remark- 

 able degree, so that he was able when out walking to repeat poem 

 after poem, sonnet after sonnet, kindling the warmest enthusiasm 

 in the hearts of his friends. To him may be applied in their 

 fullest meaning the w^ords : " Like the fabled fountain of the 

 Azores, but with a more various power, the magic of Poetry can 

 confer on each period of life its appropriate blessing : on early 

 years experience, on maturity calm, on age youthfulness." 



L. K. 



WAYFAKING NOTES IN KHODESIA.- 



By E. F. Kand, M.D., F.L.S. 



(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1909, 134.) 



ACANTHACE^. 



Acanthacea are well represented in Khodesia; the following 

 notes refer to those collected by the writer in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Salisbury. 



JusTiciA PROTRACTA T. And. (no. 1380). Posteriorly the corolla 

 is inflected forwards around either side of the style, enclosing it 

 in a tube. This tube is split in front, for the two inflected por- 

 tions do not unite. From the upper end of the tube thus formed, 

 the style projects, the stigma impinging against the sulcus between 

 the posterior faces of the anthers. As dehiscence is forwards the 

 stigma is shielded from auto-pollination, and, the flower being 

 strongly protandrous, after the withering of the anthers and their 



The specimens referred to by numbers are in the National Herbarium. 



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