vi PREFACE. 
The authors have again to express to their many kind friends 
in South Africa their renewed thanks for collections of speci- 
mens sent during the publication of the present volume. Among 
their older correspondents, already mentioned in Vols. I. and II., 
those who have most constantly contributed specimens during 
the publication of Vol. III. have been Mrs. F. W. BarBer and 
her brother Henry Bowker, Esq., who continue unremittingly 
and successfully their joint explorations; J. SANDERSON, Esq., 
of Natal; and Messrs. GERRARD and McKEN, of the same 
colony. These last-named gentlemen have contributed, within 
the last two years, over one thousand species of plants, including 
many novelties, 
In the preface to Vol. II. mention was made of a collection of 
Damaraland plants received from “ Miss Elliott:” the author's 
thanks should have been offered to that lady by her married 
name, Mrs. KOLBE. 
The authors now present their thanks to the following new 
correspondents for their respective contributions : 
To GEORGE FANNIN, Esq., of the Dargle, Maritzburg, Natal, 
for very interesting collections of plants, including many novel- 
ties, made in the neighbourhood of his residence. Among the 
more noticeable is a noble new species of Anemone (A. Fanninii, 
H.), with flowers fully larger than those of A. Capensis, and 
broad, digitately many-lobed, thick, and softly-velvetty leaves ; 
a most desirable plant to introduce to gardens. 
To PrererR Mac Owan, Esq., Principal of Shaw’s College, 
Grahamstown, for several hundred species of the plants of his 
district, most carefully and beautifully dried. From none of 
their correspondents have the authors received more admirably 
prepared specimens, and though the immediate neighbourhood of 
Grahamstown is not particularly rich, and has already been well 
beaten over, Mr. Mac Owan has already detected more than one 
new species, and has added to the Flora the Nuaia congesta, 
of Abyssinia. A greater service to South African Botany has 
also been rendered by Mr. Mac Owan, in that he has succeeded in 
