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OECOLOaiCAL NOTES ON THE DISTEICT OF MANUBIE, 
TEANSKEI. 
By W. T. Saxton. 
(Communicated by L. Peringuey.) 
(With Plate XII.) 
(Eead May 17, 1916.) 
The observations recorded here were made* in the summer of 1911-12 
on a small area of country at the north-east of the Cape Province, lying 
between the great Kei and the Kogha Kivers within a few miles of the 
coast. (See Map.) 
No complete investigation was made, but the following notes may be of 
interest as supplementary to the work of Justus Thodef and J. W. Bews^ on 
the vegetation of South-East Africa. I am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown for 
the determination of most of the plants collected, and to Mr. E. H. Compton 
for assistance in the preparation of the account. 
The area comprised three chief plant-formations, namely woodland, 
park-like grassland (or savannah) with scattered trees and bushes, and in 
the more low-lying parts of the latter sedge vegetation. It might have been 
expected that the two latter formations would prove to be differentiated by 
differences in the water content of the soil, the sedge vegetation being 
developed in depressions of the ground level, but as shown by the soil 
analyses given below this appears not to be the case. 
* With the aid of a research grant from the Grant Committee of the Royal 
Society of South Africa. 
t Justus Thode : " Die botanischen Hohenregionen Natals. Ein Beitrag zur 
pflanzengeographischen Kenntniss des aussertropischen Sudostafrika." Engler's 
Botanische Jahrbucher, 1894, vol. 18, Beiblatt Nr. 43, p. 14. 
it J. W. Bews : "The Vegetation of Natal." Ann. Natal Museum, vol. 2, Part 3^ 
1912, p. 253. " An Oecological Survey of the Midlands of Natal, with special Eefer- 
ence to the Pietermaritzburg District." Ann., Natal Museum, vol. 2, Part 4, p. 485, 
1913. 
