Vili PREFACE. 
and in other ways, the latter for working out the localities 
and distribution. 
For the limits of the regions under which the localities are 
cited in which the species have been found to occur, reference 
may be made to the Preface to Volume VI. 
Besides the maps already cited in the Prefaces to Volumes VI. 
and VIL, the following have also been used :-— 
Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neighbour- 
ing territories, Compiled from the best available information. 
By Joun Tempter Horne, Surveyor-General, 1895, 
Stanford’s new Map of the Orange Free State and the 
southern part of the. South African Republic, ete., 1899. 
Carte du Théatre de la Guerre Sud-Africaine. Par le 
Colonel CAMILLE Favrs, 1902. 
To many of the South African correspondents of Kew 
enumerated in previously published volumes I have again to 
tender my acknowledgments for the contribution of specimens 
in aid of the work to the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens. : 
I must further record my obligations to some new contribu- 
tors, and to those whose kind -assistance in various ways has 
been of the greatest value in the preparation of this section of 
Volume V. 
Prof. G. Breck, Ritter von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, 
University of Prague. Loan of Proteacex, " 
Harry Bows, Esq., D.Sc, F.LS., contributed many speci- 
mens and lent portions of his Herbarium. —. 
J. Burtr Davy, Esq., F.L.S. Plants from the Transvaal. 
Prof. H. H. Drxoy, F.RB.S., Trinity College, Dublin, Loan 
of the Labiate in Harvey’s Herbarium, 
R. A. Dimmer, Esq. Plants from N amaqualand and Cape 
Division. 
Prof. J. EIcHier, Curator of the Botanic Department, K 
Naturalienkabinet at Stuttgart. Loan of Proteacew, 
Geheimrath Dr, A. ENGLER, Director of the Botanic Garden 
and Museum, Dahlem. Loan of Selaginee and Proteacex. 
Prof. C. Fianavtr, Director of the Institute of Botany 
University of Montpellier. Collection of Basutoland Plants. 
