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2. Chrysosplenium Valdivicum; glabrum, caule repente, 
foliis oppositis petiolatis rotundatis obtusissimis obscure et 
obtuse crenatis basi subtruncatis, floribus ?—(TAs. XVII.) 
AB. Moist shady places, * Los Andes," province of 
Valdivia, at an elevation of 7000 feet above the sea. Mr. 
Bridges, (n. 781 
No flowering specimens appear to have been found of this 
plant, and my collection includes two varieties, differing 
however in nothing but size. One is little more than 
a span long and the leaves not f of an inch in their 
greatest diameter; the other is 1 foot long, with the leaves 2 
inches in diameter. 
Tab XVII. Fig. 1, smaller state of the plant; f. 2, por- 
tion of the larger variety ; nat. size. 
Contributions towards a FLORA or Born Arrica. By 
R. C. F. Meisner, Professor of Botany, at the University 
of Basel, Switzerland. 
** Semper aliquid noviex Africa.” 
LINNZUS, 
Although the zealous investigations into the vegetation of 
uth Africa, made by modern botanists, have added 
numerous discoveries to the materials with which Burman, 
Bergius and Thunberg, had laid the foundation of a Flora 
_ of that interesting part of the world, it appears, and the 
following pages may prove it, that not only the more remote 
Stern parts of South Africa, but even the immediate 
environs of the Cape itself, notwithstanding their having 
been, for more than a century, explored by numerous collec- 
tors, still afford many species hitherto unknown. Dr. 
_ Ferdinand Krauss, of Stuttgart, after having travelled be- 
tween the years 1838, and 1840, through different parts of 
the colony, from the Cape to beyond Port Natal, returned 
