THE NATAL SPECIES OF THE SAPINDACEAE.

D u r i n g a short stay in Durban in January, 1 9 1 9 , I saw for the first time, in their native state, species of Sapindaceae growing in the Stellabush. This led me to make an examination of the material in the Natal Herbarium, and a t the same time I took the opportunity of describing the species. To make the records more complete than it was possible to do from the material in the Natal Herbarium alone, all the Natal specimens in the Bolus Herbarium and Cape Government Herbarium a t Capetown and the National Herbarium, Pretoria, were examined. This has added considerably to the Natal localities in which the species occur. Twelve genera of the order Sapindaceae have been recorded from South Africa, and of these nine occur in Natal. Wood, in his “ Handbook to the Natal Flora ” (1 9 0 7 ), cites sixteen Natal species, but he eventually dropped Schmiddia natalensis in his “ Revised List of the Natal Flora.” Of the fifteen species mentioned by Wood, only ten are repre sented in the Natal Herbarium, and of those unrepresented I have not seen specimens from Natal in any other herbarium. The examination of the material has brought to light an undescribed Bersama which occurs in Natal, and I am of opinion th a t Bersama tysoniana also occurs there, though I have seen no Natal specimen.