ANNALS MEDEDELINGEN 
OF THE 
VAN HET 
TRANSVAAL 
MUSEUM 
Vol. 6 
Part 4 
ADDENDUM TO THE FIRST CHECK-LIST OF 
THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF 
THE TRANSVAAL AND SWAZILAND 
By Mrs R. Pott, Botanist of the Transvaal Museum 
PREFACE. 
This Addendum to the First Check-list of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of 
the Transvaal and Swaziland, published May, 1912, in the Annals of the 
Transvaal Museum , Vol. 111. No. 3, is chiefly based upon records from the 
Transvaal Museum Herbarium. Further are included those records given in 
the parts of the Flora Capensis and the Flora of Tropical Africa, those in the 
issues of the Kew Bulletin, the Journal of Botany, the second edition of Sim’s 
Ferns of South Africa, the Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Afrikanischen Flora, 
Annals of the Bolus Herbarium, etc., published since 1912. 
This Addendum is far from complete, but it is only given as a first one, 
which will be followed by others. 
The flora of the Transvaal is very rich and many parts of the country are 
either poorly or not at all botanically investigated ; e.g. every collection of 
plants, sent to the Transvaal Museum Herbarium from Messina (Z.), where 
Archdeacon Rogers has collected to such a great extent, has added new 
records to the Transvaal Flora. But even amongst collections from non- 
tropical parts of the Transvaal I often found new records, to say nothing of 
the probably new species amongst those plants I only identified as far as the 
genus. The latter, of which there are a good many in the Transvaal Museum 
Herbarium, I have not included in this list, unless it is a genus new to the 
flora. 
The ferns in the First Check-list I altered according to Sim’s second 
edition of the Ferns of South Africa, the genus Lotononis is split up into Loto- 
nonis and Pearsonia, and in the Orchids, the Gramineae, the Loranthaceae, 
the Crassulaceae, the Leguminosae and the Euphorbiaceae many alterations 
in the names had to be made to bring this List up to date. Here and there 
synonyms have been eliminated. 
Incomplete as this List is, I expect it to be of use to the many workers in 
systematic Botany we have at present in the Transvaal. 
R. P. 
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