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flowing to the east and - the south being affluents of the Sabi and of 
the Limpopo. In passing from Buluwayo to Salisbury one crosses 
many of these pears some flowing in one direction, others in the 
other 
“The country generally has a firm red soil, but upon the actual 
watershed and hard by the soil is sandy. Soils of intermediate 
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varying thickness. Such soil shows many cracks, often of con- 
siderable Pre and even tans enough to admit the hoof of a horse. 
It is firm in the dry season, but boggy and treacherous in the rainy 
season. iti is commonly known as vley ground. The large mountain 
masses are mostly of granite or gneiss ; iam masses may be of 
ironstone, sandstone, or other sec ondary rock. In passing from 
Buluwayo to Salisbury one crosses rise aid hollow sete rather 
monotonous frequency ; the rise is always crowned with wood, the 
trees coming down the sides until the vley ground is rea sets d; this 
they d not trench upon. On leaving the one invariably 
descends into mountainous country, and in passing 
down of the river valleys which descend from the plateau one 
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Crematis Srantevi Hook. 
Hab. Salisbury, late Dec., No. 1. 
In shape of leaf, &c., ge is closely allied to a plant collected in 
Huilla by Welwitsch, No. 1 21b. 
ANUNCULUS PinNaATUS Poir. 
Hab. Salisbury, Dec., No. 79 July, 435. Buluwayo, 
May, No. 287. See note on this species in joa, Bot. 1896, p. 88. 
Nasturtium FLuvIATILE E. — 
Hab. Buluwayo, Tas an : : 
Apparently ifibeoonded ‘for iesienl Africa. 
CiEomE macutata Szyszyl. 
Hab. Shashi River, Jan., No. 22. 
This plant has four fertile stamens and staminodia; in the 
Flora Capensis it appears as Tetratelia eh siny Sonder. 
nie unrecorded for Tropical Afric 
C. monopuyiia L. 
Hab. ~Batinenys: Dec., No. 73. 
PepiceLiaria PENTAPHYLLA Schrank. 
Hab. Buluwayo, Jan., No. 28. 
