scholarly journals SOME NEW SPECIES OF CURCULIONIDAE FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

1928 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-167
Author(s):  
A. J. Hesse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

The Genus Asparagus in Southern Africa*

Bothalia ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Jessop
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Nomen Nudum ◽  
Chromosome Counts ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

A revision of the genus Asparagus in South Africa, South West Africa, Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland has been undertaken. Notes are given on the value of most o f the characters which have been used in the separation of species, recent literature on the nature of  Asparagus assimilatory organs, and a technique for the examination of chromosomes. Chromosome counts are listed for ten taxa. There is a key to the forty species and four varieties. In the main part of the work these taxa are described, and their synonymy, taxonomy, distribution and habitats dealt with. Six species and one variety are new. The following are the new species and combinations:  A. setaceus (Kunth) (Asparagopsis setacea Kunth), A. mueronatus, A. macowanii Bak. var. zuluensis (N. E. Br.)  (A. zuluensis N. E. Br.), A. rigidus, A. densiflorus (Kunth)  {Asparagopsis densiflora Kunth),  A. aethiopicus L. var. angusticladus, A. falcatus L. var. ternifolius (Bak.)  (A. aethiopicus L. var.  ternifolius Bak.),  A. aspergillus,  A. obermeyerae,  A. krebsianus (Kunth) (Asparagopsis krebsiana Kunth),  A. acocksii.  A. crassicladus. Several plants o f horticultural importance occur in South Africa. The three best known are A. plumosus, which is reduced here to synonymy under  A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop, and  A. sprengeri and  A. myersii. A. sprengeri is being reduced to synonymy under  A. densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop,.  A. myersii, which is a  nomen nudum, is also regarded as belonging to  A. densiflorus.

The Africa Bureau, London

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-294
Author(s):  
Peter Calvocoressi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Informal Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
African People ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

It is not easy to describe the objects, still less the activities, of the Africa Bureau in a few words. It is one of those organisations whose ambitions and influence are much greater than its physical size.If you look at the dominating purpose behind the activities of the past 12 years, you will find it in the Bureau's sympathy with and determination to promote African independence. It was established in 1952 to provide accurate information particularly on the aims and hopes of African nationalism, to oppose unfair discrimination, and to encourage development in Africa. The need for such an organisation in Britain had been recognised primarily by Rev. Michael Scott, who on returning from South Africa sought help from people in Britain for the African people of South West Africa. An informal group advising on the intricate political and constitutional issues involved in bringing South West Africa's plight before the United Nations provided the nucleus from which the Africa Bureau grew, and since 1948, Michael Scott, honorary director of the Bureau, has attended the U.N. and given evidence as personal representative of Chief Hosea Kutako of the Hereros.

A new species of Ledoyerella, L. kunensis sp. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Kamakidae) from South West Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4450 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
MICHAEL L. ZETTLER ◽  
ALAN MYERS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
West Africa ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Other ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
A New Species

A new species of kamakid amphipod, Ledoyerella kunensis sp. nov., is described from waters off Namibia and Angola. This is the first record of this genus in the Atlantic. The taxon is fully described and figured and is compared with the other known species of the genus occurring in waters of the Indian and Pacific Ocean. 

General Assembly

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-512
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
South West ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Alternate Procedure ◽  
Union Government

Report of the Committee on South West Africa: The report of the Committee on South West Africa to the tenth session of the General Assembly stated that the Committee had again invited the government of the Union of South Africa to confer with it, but that the Union government had refused the invitation, stating that it still maintained that the mandate in respect of South West Africa had lapsed and that the government had no other international commitments as a result of the demise of the League of Nations. Provisional rules of procedure for the Committee had been adopted on February 11, 1954; at its meeting on June 1, 1955, the Committee, having received no comment from South Africa, decided that these provisional rules of procedure should become its rules of procedure. In 1955, the Union government had again refused to submit an annual report in regard to the Territory of South West Africa to the Committee; therefore, the Committee decided to apply the alternate procedure contained in its rules of procedure with respect to examination of reports.

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