A large number of specimens of our flora are on hand for 

 distribution and exchange when time can be spared for making 

 up the parcels, and a number are still due to us from various 

 correspondents. 



Partly on account of press of other work I have not been 

 able to take many collecting trips during the year, but in 

 January I visited the Greytown district and obtained a few 

 specimens, some of which are rare, and were not in the 

 Herbarium. I had hoped to have visited the upper districts 

 in the latter part of the year, but have been prevented from 

 doing so by the war. In March my assistant, Mr. Wylie, took 

 a trip with wagon to Zululand, and besides bringing a large 

 number of living specimens, he also brought specimens for the 

 Herbarium, two of which proved to be new species ; they have 

 been named at Kew, Tentas Wylei, N.E.B., and Felicia lutea, 

 N.E.B., also a new Cyperus as yet not specifically named. 

 When in Zululand about twelve years ago I met with a tree 

 which was new to me, but neither flowers nor seeds were to be 

 had. I therefore asked Mr. Wylie to keep a lookout for it 

 when passing the place where I found it, and he fortunately 

 found it in flower. It proves to be Albizzia versicolor, Welw., 

 a tree only found hitherto in Lower Guinea and Mozambique. 

 By the kindness of Messrs. Stockland and Wood, I have sinco 

 obtained a few seeds, and we hope to rear plants ; it is nearly 

 related to our " Flat crown " {Albizzia fastigiata), and may 

 prove to be a valuable tree. 



The " Preliminary Catalogue of Indigenous Natal Plants," 

 which was published in 1894, includes 2,216 named species and 

 391 unnamed ones and varieties. Since then this list has been 

 increased in my Annual Reports as follows — In 1894, 44 

 species; in 1895, 237 species; in 1896, 101 species; in 1897, 

 86 species ; in 1898, 96 species ; and in the present Report, 40 

 species, as follows : — 



SIXTH ADDITION TO " PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OP INDIGENOUS 

 PLANTS." 



Aeolanthus canescens, Gurke Labiatae 



Albuca affinis, Wood & Evans Liliaceae 



Aster uliginosus, „ ,, Compositae 



Alepidea natalensis, „ „ Umbellifereae 



Albizzia versicolor, Welw. Leguminoseae 



Berkheya maritima, Wood & Evans Compositae 



Ghlorophytum Haygarthii, Wood & Evans Liliaceae 



Fadogia humilis, „ ,, Rubiaceae 



Felicia pinnatifida, ,, ,, Compositae 



,, drakensbergcnsis ,, ,, ,, 



,, lutea, N. E. Brown „ 



Lasiostelma Sandersoni, Oliver Asclepiadeae 



