VI 



PREFACE. 



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For the loan or contribution of specimens used in working out 

 the Orders included in the present Section, Kew is indebted to the 

 foUowinii : 



Sir T. B. Balfour. Loan of Euplforhiacese. 



Alavin Bkroer, La ^Nlortola, loan and gift of specimens of 



Eupliovhia. 

 Mrs. P. Bolus. Loan of SanUdaceae and EtqJiorhiaccx from the 



Bolus Herbarium. 

 Dr. J. I. Briquet. Loan of Tliesmm from Boissicr Herbarium. 

 J. L. Prkor, Port Elizabeth, Living and dried specimens ot 



Ev/phorhhi. 

 D. J. W. C GoETHAKT. Loan of Eu^jltorhiacese from the Leiden 

 Herbarium. 

 ' Dr. Rudolph Maklotji^ CapeLosvu. Loan and gift uf specimens 

 of Enpliorbia, 

 Dr, C. H. OsTENFiiLU. Loan of En^jJiorhiaceie from the Uuiversi- 



tatets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen. 

 Prof. H. H. W. Pkaesox. Livin^i^ and dried plants collected on 



a Slaclen Expedition. 

 Dr. A. B. IIkndle. Loan of Thymel veneer and Euphorhiaceije 



from British Museum. 

 Archdeacon F. A. Bogkrs. Gift of South African plants. 

 Prof. A. C. Seward. Loan of Santalaceie and Eiiphorbiacc^ 



from Cambridge University Herbarium. 



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I continue to be indebted for invaluable aid to ^Ir. C. IL 



Wright, A.L.S., and to Mr. N. E. Brown, A.L.S., the former in 



reading the proofs and in other ways, the latter for working out 

 the localities and distribution. 



The present Part completing Vol. V., Sect, 2, completes also the 

 enumeration and description of the Flowering Plants of Staitli 

 Africa belonging to Dicotyledonks, as far as Herbarium material 

 at each moment has been available. Vol, V., Sect. 3, with 

 the two succeediuLT volumes treats in 



the 



same way 



with the 



Monocotvlkdoxp:s. The two classes taken together constitute the 

 subdivision of the Vegetable Kingdom, Axgiosperm.e, in whicli 



seeds are enclosed i!i a seed-vesse]. 



W. T. T-1). 



WaXCOMBE, 



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23rd Scj)te7nber^ I'j^i, 



