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accompanied vt the dark yellow substance always found in connec- 
tion with the sete I did not succeed in finding the animal in 
the dried specimens, but there can be no doubt about it being of the 
same sort as that. found in the Stonehaven material, since the results 
in oo case are exactly similar. 
Since the disease thus produced o on the surface of the frond 
edtarowthd niga similar in every respect to the ma arginal pro- 
liferatio ons, the mality of the origin of these became open to 
suspicion. hate tated a large series whe dried specimens, but 
without finding any trace of other than normal outgrowth of tissue 
in the case of the marginal ims ations. 2 Ok fronds, however, on 
which galls are present and marginal proliferations e well, I have 
often found the yellow substance described at the base of these 
a, normal Lien enna 
hav than . Murray for his advice and 
guidance, and fox: his prt ng in placing the material at my 
dispos 
Desc on or Prate.—Fig. 1. Frond of Rhodymenia palmata, showing 
galls and the proliferations they result in: nat. size. Fig. 2. Section tarougit 
ep showing structure of gall, x 100. Fig. 3. Similar section, x 50. 
Fi same, X 100. Fig. 5. Section through young proliferation, x 50. 
rie 6. Section through thallus, showing Ha i Saag in siti, x 100. Fig. 7. 
Adult femle of Harpacticus chelifer, after Br 
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By G. F. Scorr Exuiot, M.A., F.L.S. 
Pelargonium Barklyi, n. sp. (Section Polyactium). — Root 
tuberous, napiform. Branches 2-3, very short, covered with the 
woody bases of the old leaves. Leaves almost all radical, cordate- 
? 
6, lanceolate ; pedicels at frst nodding, se erect. "Banal rere 
nerved ; is white and ciliated at the edge. 
Petals Shovels, ‘cuneate, white (), with 2 ¥ comapisidus red lines 
Affinity near P. pulverulentum Coly., from which it is ary 
distinguished ea the elongate petals, pig tent and pubesce 
Also allied to an unpublished species, P. precox Burchell (5013 | 
4926! 4854!), but with different sepals nit te racts. 
Hab. Namaqualand, Mr. Reynolds, No. 3; Sir Henry Barkly! 
In umbrosis subhumidis, Garrakoofs Poort, alt. 3000 ped., Sept. 
