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such as: — Ceiba pentandra, Kleinedoxa 
Zenkeri, Carpodinus landolphioides, 
Mimusops djawa, and Spathodea cam- 
panulata are there indigenous. 
South West Africa. — It is pro- 
hibited, by a regulation of 1902, to 
catch or to kill certain mammals, such 
as the elephant, the hippopotamus, the 
giraffe, and the zebra, and such birds as 
the ostrich and the topau. Exceptional 
treatment is, of course, given to scien- 
tific expeditions. 
In 1907, the habitat of Welwitschia 
mirabilis, near the station Welwitsch, 
on the Windhuk line, was enclosed by 
means of a fence. 
Lastly, it may be mentioned that a 
Committee has been formed in Berlin, 
which aims at preventing the complete 
extermination of the African elephant. 
