﻿APEIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1910. 
  17 
  

  

  27519 
  — 
  Continued. 
  

  

  is 
  small. 
  The 
  flesh 
  is 
  sweet, 
  and 
  the 
  berries 
  are 
  eaten 
  by 
  Kafirs 
  and 
  white 
  children. 
  

   It 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  the 
  fruit 
  might 
  be 
  improved 
  under 
  cultivation." 
  {Davy.) 
  (Seed.) 
  

   Distribution. 
  — 
  A 
  branching 
  shrub 
  growing 
  on 
  the 
  mountains 
  in 
  the 
  southwestern 
  

   part 
  of 
  Transvaal 
  Colony 
  and 
  the 
  northwestern 
  part 
  of 
  Orange 
  River 
  Colony. 
  

  

  27520. 
  Cervicina 
  undulata 
  (L. 
  f.) 
  Skeels. 
  

  

  {Campanula 
  undulata 
  L. 
  f. 
  Suppl. 
  142. 
  1781.) 
  

   (Wahlenbergia 
  undulata 
  DC. 
  Monog. 
  Campan. 
  148. 
  1830.) 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  Cervicina 
  was 
  established 
  by 
  Delile 
  (Fl. 
  d'Egypte, 
  vol. 
  6, 
  pi. 
  5) 
  in 
  

   1813, 
  the 
  type 
  and 
  only 
  species 
  being 
  Cervicina 
  campanuloides 
  Delile. 
  The 
  name 
  

   Wahlenbergia 
  was 
  apparently 
  first 
  used 
  by 
  Schrader 
  (Cat. 
  Hort. 
  Goetting.), 
  in 
  1814. 
  

   This 
  catalogue, 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  possible 
  to 
  consult, 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  contained 
  

   a 
  mere 
  list 
  of 
  botanical 
  names 
  not 
  accompanied. 
  by 
  descriptions, 
  and 
  Wahlenbergia 
  

   was 
  not, 
  therefore, 
  technically 
  published 
  in 
  that 
  place. 
  The 
  next 
  use 
  of 
  Wahlen- 
  

   bergia 
  is 
  by 
  Roth 
  (Nov. 
  Sp. 
  Ind. 
  Orient. 
  399), 
  in 
  1821, 
  where 
  Wahlenbergia 
  elongata 
  

   of 
  Schrader's 
  catalogue 
  is 
  cited 
  and 
  described, 
  and 
  Campanula 
  capensis 
  L. 
  cited 
  as 
  

   a 
  synonym, 
  making 
  it 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Wahlenbergia. 
  While 
  Cervicina 
  cam- 
  

   panuloides 
  Delile 
  and 
  Campanula 
  capensis 
  L. 
  are 
  very 
  different 
  plants, 
  they 
  are 
  

   considered 
  by 
  all 
  recent 
  botanical 
  writers 
  to 
  be 
  congeneric, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  Cervicina, 
  

   being 
  older, 
  has 
  been 
  used 
  in 
  place 
  of 
  Wahlenbergia 
  by 
  various 
  authors, 
  including 
  

   Druce 
  (Fl. 
  Berkshire 
  324. 
  1897), 
  Hiern 
  (Cat. 
  Welw. 
  Afr. 
  PI. 
  1: 
  631, 
  1898), 
  and 
  Moore 
  

   (Journ. 
  Bot. 
  41: 
  402. 
  1903), 
  a 
  precedent 
  which 
  is 
  here 
  followed. 
  

  

  From 
  Pretoria, 
  Transvaal, 
  South 
  Africa. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  Burtt 
  Davy, 
  

   Government 
  agrostologist 
  and 
  botanist, 
  Transvaal 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  

   Received 
  April 
  9, 
  1910. 
  

  

  "This 
  plant 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  much 
  eaten 
  by 
  ostriches, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  by 
  other 
  stock, 
  includ- 
  

   ing 
  horses. 
  One 
  farmer 
  claims 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  preferred 
  to 
  lucern, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  keeps 
  green 
  

   and 
  grows 
  through 
  the 
  dry 
  winter. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  perennial, 
  and 
  prefers 
  freshly 
  turned, 
  

   rather 
  moist, 
  sandy 
  soil. 
  It 
  is 
  widely 
  distributed 
  over 
  the 
  eastern 
  Transvaal, 
  from 
  

   Pretoria 
  eastward, 
  at 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  4,700 
  to 
  5,500 
  feet, 
  with 
  a 
  rainfall 
  of 
  26 
  to 
  33 
  inches, 
  

   falling 
  only 
  in 
  summer." 
  (Davy.) 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Linnaeus 
  gives 
  the 
  habitat 
  of 
  Campanula 
  undulata 
  as 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  

   Hope, 
  without 
  locality. 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  coast 
  region 
  of 
  South 
  Africa, 
  

   extending 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Tulbagh, 
  in 
  the 
  southwestern 
  part 
  of 
  Cape 
  Colony, 
  

   through 
  Uitenhage, 
  the 
  Albany 
  district, 
  and 
  Caffraria, 
  northeastward 
  to 
  the 
  Albert 
  

   district 
  in 
  Orange 
  River 
  Colony, 
  and 
  to 
  Port 
  Natal 
  in 
  Natal. 
  

  

  27531 
  to 
  27537. 
  

  

  From 
  San 
  Giovanni 
  a 
  Teduccio, 
  near 
  Naples, 
  Italy. 
  Purchased 
  from 
  Messrs. 
  

   Dammann 
  & 
  Co. 
  Received 
  April 
  11, 
  1910. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  27531 
  to 
  27533. 
  Dolichos 
  lablab 
  L. 
  Bonavist 
  bean. 
  

  

  27531. 
  Variety 
  albus. 
  27533. 
  Variety 
  sudanensis. 
  

  

  27532. 
  Variety 
  atropurpureus. 
  

  

  27534. 
  Dolichos 
  lignosus 
  L. 
  

  

  27535. 
  Glycine 
  hispida 
  (Moench) 
  Maxim. 
  Soybean. 
  

   Brown. 
  

  

  73528°— 
  Bui. 
  208—11 
  2 
  

  

  