388 GEOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. 



number of the representatives of the botanical forms of 

 the Cape occur in this region ; but hitherto only two Pro- 

 teaceae, one Aspaldthw, two Geraniaceae, one Muraltia, 

 one Maternia > and one Sarosma t have been found in 

 Natal, and not a single species of Erica, Phylica, 

 Selayo. Oxalis, Zygophylleae, &c. 



The summary of Krauss's Herbaria contains the diag- 

 noses of several new species from Natal, and some from 

 the Cape colony, published under the authority of those 

 naturalists who have worked out the collections for the 

 traveller. Among them the following new genera are 

 proposed : By Bischoff, Splicerotliylax (Podostorneae) ; by 

 Meissner, Bunburya (Rubiaceae) ; by C. H. Schultz, Mo- 

 nopappus (Helichryseae) ; and Antrospermum (Arctotideae). 

 Kunze has described some new Ferns from the Cape and 

 Natal (Lmnsea, 1844, pp. 113-24). 



Bojer has continued his descriptions of new species of 

 plants from the Mauritius and Madagascar (Troisieme 

 Rapport de la Soc. de St. Maurice) ; on this occasion they 

 refer to the Anonaceae, Menispermaceae, Capparidaceae, 

 and Leguminosae. Gardner has made a brief report upon 

 some excursions in the Mauritius (London Journal of Bot., 

 1844, pp. 481-85). 



IV. ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



Seubert has published a copious Flora of the Azores, 

 in which his former memoir, which has been noticed in 

 this work, is satisfactorily carried out, and brought to 

 systematic perfection (Flora Azorica, Bonnae, 1844, 4to). 

 Of about 400 plants from the Azores, upon which his 

 observations are made, fifty sp. are endemic, twenty- 

 three sp. belong also to the Canarian Archipelago, five 

 sp. to the continent of Africa, and six sp. to that 

 of America; the remainder occur also in Europe. Of 

 the endemic species, seven are Synantheraceae, as many 

 Cyperaceae, and five Graminaceae. Immediately after the 



