ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 4.] 



[1908 



XXL-NOTES ON SOME TRANSVAAL TREES AND 



SHRUBS. 



Joseph Burtt-Davy. 



Since the publication of my preliminary account of the native 

 trees of the Transvaal, in the Transvaal Agricultural Journal 

 (Vol. v., No. 18, January, 1907), I have been able to compare 

 some of my material with types and authentically named 

 specimens in the Kew herbarium. I wish to express mv thanks 

 to the Director and to the members of the Kew staff for their 

 courtesy and assistance in many ways, and especially for their 

 valuable suggestions as to the possible relationship of specimens 

 of which neither flowers nor fruit were available for identification. 



I have also been able to examine some of Warburg's types of 

 Ficus and named material of Rehmann's collections at Zurich, 

 through the kindness of Dr. Schinz, and have incorporated my 

 Zurich notes with those from Kew. Where Zurich specimens are 

 cited, the fact is noted. 



Through the courtesy of the gentlemen in charge, I was able 

 also to examine some South African material in the herbaria of 

 Boissier and of Delessert, at Geneva. 



Finally, when passing through Cape Town, on my return to 

 South Africa, I spent a day with Dr. Bolus verifying citations of 

 specimens in his herbarium, and making a few additional com- 

 parisons. I wish to take this opportunity of thanking him for 

 the great assistance he has rendered me on this and other occasions. 



As it was necessary to make as many comparisons as possible in 

 the very limited time at my disposal at Kew, it was not feasible 

 to give much attention to the dissection of flowers. Where 

 close critical work was required, as in the case of the Rubiaa>ae, 

 Ebenaceae, and Celastraceae, I have ha<l to content myself for the 

 present with approximate determinations only, reserving closer 

 study for a more favourable opportunity. As it is uncertain when 



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