application, and also printed directions for preparing the 

 specimens if required. 



In consequence of the disturbed state of the country espe- 

 cially in the upper districts, but little collecting has been done. 

 I have made two trips only, one in the early part of the year 

 to Lidgetton, and one near the end of December to Ladysmith, 

 on both occasions securing specimens for exchange ; a larger- 

 number has been collected from time to time in the coast dis- 

 tricts, so that our stock of duplicates is still a fairly large one. 

 In consequence of the time of my Assistant being fully occupied 

 in making the drawings for " Natal Plants," I obtained for a 

 time the services of a young lady who is a refugee from Johan- 

 nesburg, and her time was fully occupied for about three 

 months in mounting specimens and looking out parcels of plants 

 for exchange, work which otherwise would have to have been 

 done by my Assistant, Miss Lauth 



The preparation of the plates for " Natal Plants " had to be 

 suspended for about two months in consequenoe of the serious 

 illness of the artist, still the second part of Vol. 2, containing 

 25 figures and descriptions of Gramineee, and the first part of 

 Vol. 3, containing 25 figures and descriptions of miscellaneous 

 plants has been published ; the second part of Vol. 3 will be 

 issued early in the coming year. Altogether 43 drawings have 

 been completed during the year. It was intended that Miss 

 Lauth should keep to the grasses until completed, but chiefly 

 in consequence of the war Mr. Haygarth was compelled to give 

 up evening work in consequence of two of his assistants being 

 at the front with the Volunteers, he could no longer give his 

 attention to it, I therefore decided to leave the grasses for a 

 time so as to finish Vol. 3, after that we shall probably return 

 to Vol. 2 until completed. 



During the past year further additions to the " Preliminary 

 Catalogue of Natal Plants " have been made, and I now give 

 the names of 61 which have been added to the list : — 



Awe natalensis, Wood & Evans ... ... Liliaceae 



Androcymbium decipiens, N. E. Brown ... ,, 



Anthottpermum ruhicanle, K. Schum ... Hubiaceae 



Argyrolobium reflexum, N. E. Brown ... Leguviincsae 



,, variopile, N. E. Brown ... ,, 



Aristida augustata, Stapf ... ... Gramineae 



,, vestita, Thb ... ... ... „ 



Asclepias Gerrardi, Schltr ... ... Asclepiadeae 



Atkrixia Gerrardi, Harv ... ... Compositae 



,, arachnoidea, Wood & Evans ... ,, 



Athanasia montaua, Wood & Evans ... „ 



Boerhaavia asccndens, Willd ... ... Nyctagiiicac 



