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plants, selected from the communications of three friends, and specially 

 remarkable : one from its structural peculiarities, which point it out as 

 possibly the type of a new Order ; the others, from their geographical 

 distribution and rarity. Other new forms may be brought forward 

 from time to time, and from the activity now awakening among the 

 collectors and botanists at the Cape, and especially from the recent ap- 

 pointment of Dr. Pappe, as Colonial Botanist (with a handsome salary 

 from the Treasury), most important additions will probably, ere long, 

 be made to our knowledge of the Cape Flora. As Dr. Pappe* under- 

 takes to furnish me with duplicates of all his collections, our Herbarium 

 will probably become unrivalled as a receptacle for Cape plants, in 

 which already it is tolerably rich. I take this opportunity of soliciting 

 from all well-wishers to the forthcoming " Flora" contributions, large 

 or small, of specimens from the Cape ; as, in preparing a Flora of so 

 great a region, specimens from all localities are imperatively required. 

 The first to be described is a very remarkable and beautiful shrub or 

 small tree, which forms a most distinct new genus, to which Sir 

 William Hooker and myself have jointly agreed to give the name of 

 Greyia, in honour of Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor of the Cape 

 Colony, who takes a warm interest in developing the natural history of 

 South Africa. Of Sir George's merits in other respects, it is unneces- 

 sary to speak ; his present exalted position having been won, step by 

 step, by important public services rendered to four colonies, and his 

 able conduct, under very difficult circumstances, as Governor of the 

 Cape, having earned for him the respect of two hemispheres. But I 

 may be permitted to take this opportunity of tendering to his Excellency 

 my grateful acknowledgment of a favour conferred on myself by his 

 insertion in the " Capetown Gazette" a government notice (No. 387, 

 1857), of which the following is an extract : — 



" His Excellency has also directed it to be notified, that a commu- 

 nication has been received from Sir W. Hooker, announcing that Dr. 

 Harvey, Professor of Botany in Trinity College, Dublin, and author of 

 the well-known work on ' The Genera of South African Plants,' pub- 

 lished at the Cape in 1838, which has long been out of print, is engaged 



* Whilst this sheet is under press, Dr. Pappe's first instalment — a most valuable and 

 extmsive one — has coine to hand. — W. H. H. 



