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Ranunculus nissanus.—Fibrae radicales incrassatae, cylin- 
Sersta.—Dry slopes and by roadsides below Mount Gabrovatz, 
below the fortress of Kurin, near Nish, opposite Medoshevatz, 
and near Mramor. Flowering in April and May. 
It was described in the Flora Agri Nyssani as R. psilostachys, 
Griseb., but differs therefrom in its less deeply-cut earliest radical 
leaves, in its caudate carpels, in their beaks, and in its subter- 
ranean stolons. 
The nearest ally to the Nish plant is R. cylindricus, Jord., 
but this also is very different, owing to its dissected earliest 
leaves, , : 
Croton Gubouga, S. Moore, the botanical identity of which was 
discussed on an earlier page 
already been published in th 
1918, p. 289. : r 
d before the Cape Town Medical Society 
In an address delivere é 
in 1899 by John Maberley, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., the following 
account is given of a bark used as a remedy for bilious malarial 
of the low veld between Delagoa Bay and 
the Letaba Gold Fields :— 
“Then t which before this day has 
This is represented, unfortunately, by 
n the light 
sor mie adi a mall piece of bark which I exhibit, and which 
