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Specimens have been sent away as under : 



Government Herbarium, Capetown 



,, ,, Grahams town 



,, ,, Calcutta 



Sydney, N.S. Wales 

 „ „ Victoria, Australia 



Alex Morrison, West Australia ... 



G. L. Fisher, Canada .. 



O. Bonati, Paris, Prance (specially requested) 



R. Hamet, ,, ,, ,, ,, 



52 



54 



109 



103 



101 



242 



57 



25 



15 



758 



and a number of indigenous specimens are on hand for ex- 

 change. 



A large number of specimens have been sent for identifica- 

 tion ; many were merely sent to obtain the name of the plant, 

 some by Entomologists who wished to be able to identify the 

 plants on which the different Lepidoptera fe^d, while others 

 wished to obtain information as to the economic value or the 

 deleterious or other properties possessed by the plants of which 

 they sent specimens, and of these latter I have selected some ot 

 the most prominent for further notice here: — 



Examination and identification of the seeds of Tpomoea 

 albivenia (G. Don). Information was sent as to the value 

 of the fibre attached to the seeds, which is too short in staple, 

 and too weak to be of any commercial value except, perhaps, 

 for stuffing cushions, etc., for which purpose it is occasionally 

 used. 



Identification of a grass which was said to " have stood 

 the dry weather and frost " up to the date of sending, the grass 

 was Poa annua, (Linn). 



Examination of two leaves which were supposed to be 

 those of Fourcroya gigantea, and Agave rigida, both fibre 

 plants, the one supposed to be a Fourcroya was that of a 

 species of Doryanthes an imported plant, the other was a 

 species of Fourcroya. 



Examination of two roots of a plant which had been 

 obtained from a native doctor, and also of two seed vessels of a 

 plant said to be injurious to sheep The roots without leaves 

 or any information about them could not be identified, the 

 fruits were of those of Gurumis africanus, (Linn). 



Examination of an incomplete specimen of a shrub or tree, 

 but as leaves and twigs only were sent the plant could not be 

 certainly identified, but I know of no plant with which it 

 could be compared that is really poisonous to cattle, 



