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  Heifbaifium. 
  

  

  REPORT 
  FOR 
  THE 
  YEAR 
  1896 
  

  

  BURING 
  the 
  year 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Herbarium 
  

   have 
  been 
  increased 
  from 
  17,070 
  to 
  18,088, 
  of 
  which 
  7,455 
  

   are 
  South 
  African, 
  and 
  10,643 
  from 
  foreign 
  countries 
  ; 
  all 
  

   these 
  are 
  mounted 
  and 
  catalogued, 
  and 
  in 
  addition 
  I 
  have 
  about 
  

   400 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  mounted 
  during 
  January, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  advices 
  

   of 
  two 
  more 
  parcels 
  on 
  the 
  way 
  out. 
  I 
  regret 
  that 
  the 
  large 
  

   parcel 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  Central 
  African 
  plants 
  which 
  were 
  

   received 
  from 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Buchanan, 
  C.M.Gr., 
  is 
  for 
  the 
  

   present 
  of 
  but 
  little 
  use 
  to 
  us, 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  neither 
  numbered 
  nor 
  

   named, 
  and 
  must 
  therefore 
  be 
  kept 
  until 
  the 
  " 
  Flora 
  of 
  Tropical 
  

   Africa 
  " 
  is 
  further 
  advanced, 
  when 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  possible 
  for 
  us 
  to 
  

   name 
  the 
  greater 
  portion 
  of 
  them. 
  The 
  few 
  Orchids 
  in 
  the 
  

   parcel, 
  I 
  forwarded 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Rudolph 
  Schlechter, 
  and 
  he 
  found 
  

   amongst 
  them 
  four 
  new 
  species, 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  named 
  as 
  under, 
  

   viz. 
  : 
  Satyrium 
  Bnchanani, 
  Satyrkim 
  anomalum, 
  Platanthera 
  

   Nyassae, 
  and 
  Eulophia 
  gracilliscapa, 
  all 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  

   Herbarium. 
  

  

  Miss 
  Lauth, 
  my 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  Herbarium, 
  who 
  up 
  to 
  March 
  

   last 
  only 
  gave 
  half 
  of 
  her 
  time 
  to 
  the 
  work, 
  has 
  since 
  then 
  

   been 
  fully 
  employed 
  for 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  her 
  time, 
  and 
  besides 
  

   checking, 
  mounting, 
  and 
  cataloguing 
  the 
  specimens, 
  has 
  done 
  

   good 
  service 
  in 
  other 
  ways, 
  such 
  as 
  drawing 
  details 
  of 
  the 
  

   flowers 
  on 
  the 
  Herbarium 
  sheets, 
  and 
  dissecting 
  and 
  making 
  

   sketch-drawings 
  of 
  the 
  G-raniinese 
  collected 
  during 
  the 
  season, 
  

   with 
  a. 
  view 
  to 
  their 
  being 
  published, 
  and 
  illustrated 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  

   circumstances 
  will 
  permit. 
  

  

  In 
  conjunction 
  with 
  Mr. 
  Maurice 
  S. 
  Evans, 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  at 
  

   work 
  during 
  what 
  spare 
  time 
  1 
  have, 
  in 
  preparing 
  for 
  publica- 
  

   tion, 
  an 
  illustrated 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  indigenous 
  plants 
  of 
  Natal. 
  It 
  

   is 
  intended 
  to 
  issue 
  it 
  in 
  parts, 
  each 
  part 
  to 
  contain 
  50 
  plates, 
  

   with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  plants 
  illustrated, 
  two 
  parts 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  

   volume. 
  I 
  take 
  this 
  opportunity 
  of 
  saying 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  by 
  

  

  