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follow, although it will be hardly possible to squeeze all the 

 remaining orders into two volumes. 



Edmonds, Henry. " Elementary Botany," revised and edited for 

 South Africa by Eudolf Marloth, with sketch-map of the 

 Botanical regions of South Africa. London, 1897. 



Schinz, H. " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Afrikanischen Flora," part 

 iv., with 4 plates, in " Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, vol. iv., 

 pp. 410-475. Geneva, 1896. 



Contains, among other African plants, the diagnoses of forty- 

 five new species and four new genera from South Africa by the 

 following collectors : Bachmann, Baur, Bolus, Fleck, Galpin, 

 Hermann, Junod, Kuntze, Menyhart, Purcell, Eehmann, 

 Schlechter, Shaw, Sprenger, Tyson, Wood. 



The new genera are: Aulostephanus (Asclepiadaceae), 

 Schlechter; Symphipappus , Distegia, and Monactinocephalus 

 (Composites), by Klatt. 



Schonland, S. " Some New Species of Crassula from South 

 Africa." Journal of Linnaean Society. Botany, vol. xxi., pp. 

 546-554. 



This contains the descriptions of ten new species from the 

 collections of Messrs. Baur, Galpin, Marloth, Schlechter, Sim, 

 South. 



Schlechter, E. " Decades Plantarum Novarum Austro-Africa- 

 narum," Nos. 1-5. Journal of Botany, 1896-7. 26 pp. 



The fifty new species described so far belong to various orders. 

 They are from the collections of Messrs. Bolus, Wolley Dod, 

 Evans, Flanagan, Galpin, Leipoldt, Marloth, Penther, and, of 

 course, Mr. Schlechter' s own. 



Marloth E. " Charadrophila Capensis," Marloth. In Engler's 

 Botan. Jahrbucher, vol. xxvi., with plate viii. 



This very distinct new genus of Gesneracea was discovered 



