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SPECIMENS OF PLANTS AND FRUITS—continued. 
| 
No. Zulu Name. Botanical Identification. Remarks. 
28 | Bis... Tes ... | Sonchusoleraceus, Linn. | Lenva eaten, also berries. 
29 | Izintondo .. | Argyrolobium margin- | A Le ig plant ; the roots 
atum, Bolus. | n both cooked and 
im waked. 
30 | Utshwalabenyoni | Cucurbitacea | A creeper ; leaves eaten. 
31 | Ibigicana... p porte 'ambros- | Leaves cooked and eater. 
ioides, Lin | 
32 | Umkuhlo T | Trichilia aea, E.M. A large tree; fruit eaten. 
| Seeds contain oil, which 
| is used occasionally by 
| natives in Natal. 
33 | Ubukobe ... We p Horas p in- | M TE roots cooked 
| determinable d 
34 | Umsobe ... et pov in Bax : iid doe of plant ea eaten. 
35 | Mekukutwana .. vus ET acer ; leaves eaten as 
| , Spina 
36 | Umgxele ... Tr isis m hottentotica, > | A ten the berries from 
| reh. | which are eaten 
37 | Umbilibili xi | le acutifolium | A — dons the leaves 
| ea 
| | 
(nid... Wu HE H, 
October 29, 1897. 
DCIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
THE DIRECTOR has been appointed a Royal Commissioner 
for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. 
Mr. WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON, a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Gardens, and formerly in the employ of the 
Kew, Acting Curator of the ie Station at Aburi during the 
absence on leave of the Curator, Mr. C. H. Humphries, from 
the Colony. Mr. Johnson Peg ' for the Gold Coast on the 
19th January last. 
nn 
SIR GEORGE KING.—The posts of Ye gene of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and of the Government M 
Plantations at Mungpoo, were aca. on February 28, 
pic igen Lieut.-Colonel Sir George King, K.C.I.E., F. RS, 
had held them since 1871. He had previously been 
Mane. in the Order of the Indian Empire in the New Year's 
Gazette. 
The success and brilliancy of Sir George King's administration 
of his arduous and difficult posts has commanded equal admira- 
