ENUMERATION OF LEGUMINOSA. 495 
Nova Acta Nature Curiosorum. Sir William Hooker, in 
whose hands his collections have been placed, has kindly en- 
trusted the Leguminose to me for publication. 
A set of excellent Senegambian specimens collected chiefly 
by the late M. Heudelot, presented to me by the late M. Guil- 
lemin, in the name of Baron Delessert. 
A complete set of Dr. Burchell’s South African Legumi- 
nose, which I have received for examination from that gen- 
tleman. 
An extensive collection made by Messrs. Burke and 
Zeyher in the interior of South Africa, communicated to me 
by Sir W. Hooker. 
A great variety of specimens from various sources con- 
tained in Sir W. Hooker’s or my own herbaria from South 
China, the Moluccas, various parts of the continent of India, 
Ceylon, the Mauritius, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Cape Colony 
and Sierra Leone, including a nearly perfect set of Drège’s 
Cape plants, published by E. Meyer, of Krauss’s Port Natal 
species published by Meissner, and a considerable number 
of Ecklon and Zeyher’s, published in their Enumeratio. 
With regard to the East Indian portion, it will be seen 
that I have had little occasion to remark upon or to modify 
what has been published on the Peninsular species by Wight 
and Arnott in their Prodromus, the additions which I have 
had to make being chiefly from other parts of India, but the 
Cape Leguminose have been singularly unfortunate in their 
commentators. The confusion which has been unhappily 
introduced into their synonomy has induced me to enter into 
greater length with regard to them, at least as far as au- 
thentic specimens have enabled me to ascertain them with 
tolerable certainty. 
Before the publication of De Candolle's Prodromus, the 
Cape species had been chiefly described by Thunberg, whose 
Flora comprehends 248 Papilionacec, with many new genera. 
The descriptions are however not so detailed, and the locali- 
ties not so frequently given than in some of the earlier portions 
of his work, and when to this is added the frequent recur- 
