In my last annual report I noted amongst the publications 

 received, the sixth volume of the Flora Capensis, but in the 

 hurry of preparing that report at the busiest season of the 

 year, I unfortunately omitted any further mention of the 

 continuation of a work, which has been at a standstill for 33 

 years. The continuance of this work is of the very utmost 

 assistance to every botanist in South Africa, and as it and the 

 7th volume which is in the course of publication includes a 

 large number of the most attractive plants of our flora, it is to 

 be hoped that its publication will induce some at any rate of 

 our colonists to pay more attention to the science of botany 

 than they have hitherto done. It will be noticed that in the 

 list of contributions of books, that during the year the first 

 and second parts of the 7th volume have been received from 

 Kew, and the third part is, I understand, in active preparation. 

 The Herbarium department is very greatly indebted to the 

 Director of Kew Gardens, and to the various botanists asso- 

 ciated with him in the preparation of this work. 



We are also indebted to various correspondents for the 

 donations of books, as specified in the subjoined list, more 

 especially perhaps, to the Director of Kew Gardens for the 

 Flora of British India in 7 volumes now complete, the different 

 parts having been received from time to time as published, also 

 for the Flora of Tropical Africa so far as issued, for the Kew 

 Bulletin which is regularly received, and is most useful, and I 

 again take this opportunity of saying that this work deserves 

 a very much larger circulation than it appears to receive. To 

 the Bentham Trustees through the Director of Kew Gardens 

 we are indebted for the magnificent donation of a set of the 

 Icones Plantarum, which will be of great use to us ; to the 

 National Herbarium of the United States of America we are 

 indebted for several useful publications, and also to other 

 Institutions as detailed in the attached list. 



I now give a further addition to the list of the indigenous 

 plants of the colony, the list given in my report for 1897 con- 

 tained 86 names and 5 corrections or alterations, the one now 

 given contains 96 additions and 24 corrections, so that it would 

 perhaps be premature to publish an amended list at present, 

 more especially so, as the attention being given to the Gra- 

 minese, and Cyperaceae will probably result in the addition of 

 many new species, as these orders have, np to the present time 

 been so far as Natal is concerned much neglected. 



Fifth Addition to the " Preliminary Catalogue op Plants." 



Andropogon halepeasis, Sibt Gramineae 



„ punctatus, Roxb ,, 



Aristida junciformis, Trin ,, 



Bromusspeciosus, Nees ,, 



