Examination of 308 specimens of indigenous plants used 

 medicinally by the natives and identification of 247 of them, 

 the remainder being undeterminable, the specimens being 

 insufficient. 



Identification of a plant Urgenia lilacina, (Baker). It is 

 closely allied to the plant known in Transvaal as " Slang 

 Kop," which is know to be poisonous to cattle ; our plant also 

 has a bad reputation. 



Determination of 9 species of indigenous plants chiefly 

 native medicinal plants. 



Identification of an imported weed which had appeared 

 in the upper districts ; it proved to be a variety of Echium 

 vulgare, (Linn), it is probably an escape from cultivation. 



Identification of a specimen of a grass which had been sown 

 instead of Paspalum dilatatum, it was Paspalum scrobiculatum, 

 (Linn), a grass which when in seed is injurious if not poisonous 

 to cattle. 



Examination of seeds and leaves of a plant from Zululand, 

 it proved to be a species of Strophanthus certainly new to 

 South Africa, but could not be described in the absence of 

 flowers which were asked for. 



Identification of 12 indigenous plants used by the natives 

 medicinally, all of them being natives of the coast districts. 



Information as to the seeds which are being used for 

 ornament in Natal and the probability of the tree which bears 

 them succeeding in the colony; the tree is Afzelia quanzensis^ 

 (Welw), a native of tropical Africa ; there is in my opinion no 

 chance whatever of its success in Natal. 



Identification of fruits and seeds of Jatropha curcas, 

 (Linn), some persons have been made violently ill by eating 

 some of the seeds, this shrub is known as the " purging nut " 

 and its effects when taken even in small quantities are ex- 

 tremely violent, and might prove fatal. 



Identification of a species of grass from the midlands 

 which proved to be Bromus commutatus, (Schrad) a native of 

 Europe, introduced as a weed into South Africa, and not pre- 

 piously recorded in Natal. 



Identification of a grass Ohloris Gayana, (Kunth) commonly 

 known in South Africa as " Rhodes grass." 



Identification of specimen of a grass from the upper dis- 

 tricts which proved to be Avena (Avenastrum) elatior, (Linn) 

 an accidentally imported species ; it is a native of Europe, 

 Baron von Mueller says of it " it should be chosen for dry and 



