og PREFACE. 
Miss A. PEGLER. Plants from the Transkei. 
Dr. G. ALBert PETER, Director of the Botanic Garden, 
Gottingen. Loan of specimens of Gentianex. 
N. S. Pittans, Capetown. Large collection of Stapeliex, 
living and in fluid, including many new species, and the loan 
of his large and valuable herbarium of the group. The 
generous aid of this enthusiastic collector and the free use of 
his copious notes have been of the greatest value in the difficult 
task of working out the species. 
_ Humpnrey Joun Sankey, Esq. Plants from the vicinity of 
Harrismith, Orange River Colony. 
Dr. Hans Scuinz, Director of the Botanic Garden and 
Museum, Ziirich. Numerous specimens collected by Dr. R. 
Schlechter ; loan of Gentianee. 
Dr. SELMAR ScHONLAND, Curator of the Albany Museum, 
Grahamstown. Small collection of <Asclepiadew and loan of 
Gentianeer. 
Prof. ALBERT CHARLES SEWARD, F.R.S. Loan of Gentiance 
from the University Museum, Cambridge. 
Miss ETHEL West. Plants from Port Elizabeth. 
JoHN Mepiey Woop, A.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gar- 
dens, Durban. Numerous specimens of Asclepiadex and loan 
of Gentianen. 
Prof. E. PerckrvaL Wriaut, Sec. R.1.A., Keeper of the 
Herbarium, University of Dublin. Loan of portions of 
Harvey’s herbarium. . 
Dr. ALEXANDER ZAHLBRUCKNER, Keeper of the Botanical 
Collections of the Naturhistorische Hofmuseum, Vienna. Loan 
of specimens of Asclepiadex and Gentianee. 
On this occasion it is appropriate to pay a brief tribute to 
the memory cf Sir Henry Barxty, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.B.S., 
who died on October 21, 1898. It was at his instance that 
during his last period of official life as 
Colony (1873-7 ) the preparation of the Flora Capensis was 
resumed, and it was due to his support that the approval and 
aid of the legislature of Cape Colony and Natal were secured. 
‘He was deeply interested in the Stapelicw, of which at the 
time the study had been comparatively neglected. Hecollected _ 
Governor of Cape 
