PREFACE, 
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THIs second volume contains the remaining polypetalous Orders 
of South African CALYCIFLOR&. 
Since the completion of the first volume, our correspondents 
in South Africa have continued to send us large and valuable 
collections of dried plants, including specimens of a considerable 
number of new species, and of some new genera. Such of the 
novelties as fall under any of the Orders contained in Vol. L., 
as well as those belonging to, and received during the printing 
of, the present volume, will be found described in the ADDENDA, 
&e., at p. 583- : 
These additions to the Flora Capensis, though considerable, 
comprise only a portion of the new species which we have 
recently received, and which will find their proper place, as 
our work proceeds. But they sufficiently prove, not only the 
botanical richness of the country, but also the continued and 
increasing interest felt in our work by colonial botanists and 
collectors of plants. — : 
We have already, in the preface to Vol. I:, recorded our 
obligations to a numerous list of colonial contributors of speci- 
mens, to most of whom our thanks are again due for parcels 
received within the last two years. We have now to express 
similar indebtedness to the following new correspondents. 
To W. T. GERRARD, Esq., of Natal, and to M. J. McKEn, 
Esq., Curator of the Botanical Garden at D’Urban, jointly and 
_ severally, for large collections (already numbering nearly nine 
hundred species) made in the Natal Colony and in Zululand. 
Several of Messrs. Gerrard and McKen’s discoveries will be 
found in the Addenda to this volume, and others will appear — fe 
in the second volume of “ THESAURUS CaPENSIs,” now in 
preparation for press. ee 
