PREFACE. ix 
_E. E. Garry, Esq., F.L.S., Queenstown, Cape Colony. Large 
collections of South African plants and loan of portions of his 
private Herbarium. isis 
Dr. H. O. Jvet, Director of the Botanic Garden, Upsala. 
' Loan of portions of Thunberg’s Herbarium. f 
Prof. C. A. M. Lixpay, Curator of the Botanic Department 
of the Natural History Museum, Stockholm. Loan of Proteacew. 
Dr. J. Murr. Specimens from Riversdale District. 
Dr. L. Périncuey, Director of the South African Museum, 
Cape Town. Various duplicates and loan of specimens from 
the South African Museum. 
E. P. Pures, Esq., M.A. Collection of Proteacex and others. 
Mrs. R. Porr (formerly Miss R. LeENDERTZ)., Plants from 
Transvaal. 
Prof, Hans Scutnz, Director of the University Botanic 
Garden and Museum, Ziirich. Large collections of South — 
African plants and loan of specimens. 
Dr. S. SCHONLAND, Curator of the Albany Museum, Grahams- 
town. Contribution and loan of specimens of Proteacex and 
others. . 
Prof. E. Warne, late Director of the Botanic, Garden, 
Copenhagen. Loan of Selaginex. af 
J. Mepitey Woop, Esq., A.L.S., Director of the Botanic 
Garden, Durban. ollections of Natal plants and loan of 
specimens. 
Dr. A. ZAHLBRUCKNER, Keeper of the Botanic Department 
of the Hofmuseum, Vienna. Loan of Labiate and Proteacee. 
I must allow myself more personally to express my 
indebtedness to Lieut.-Colonel Pratn, C.M.G., C.L.E., E.RS., 
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, for kind and unfailing 
assistance in many ways, without which the task of editing a 
work of this kind at a distance from the resources of Kew 
could hardly be accomplished. ‘ 
It has been the practice, at any rate in the more recent 
works that have emanated from Kew, to conform to the 
classification and sequence of orders adopted in BENTHAM and 
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