INTRODUCTION 1x 
The collection includes 1,016 species and varieties, 195 of 
which are new; there are nine new genera. The new genera 
are Alphonseopsis and Dennettia in the order Anonacem, the 
former allied to the Indian genus Alphonsea, the latter to 
Melodorum ; Crateranthus, a genus of Myrtacesw intermediate in 
structure between Napoleona and the tropical South American 
Asteranthos ; Afrohamelia (Rubiaces) most nearly allied to the 
tropieal American Hamelia, and, in the same order, Dorothea 
and Diplosporopsis, new members of the tribe Gardenieæ, and 
Globulostylis, the affinity of which is with Cuviera in the tribe 
Vangueriex ; Scyphostrychnos (Loganiaces) closely allied to Strych- 
nos; Talbotia,* a member of the tribe Justiciææ in the order 
Acanthacex ; and Amauriella, a member of the subfamily Philo- 
dendroide in Araces. 
Of the new species seven belong to the order Anonaces, 
three to Violaces, three to Guttifer®, one to Malvaces, six to 
Sterculiacez, including four new Colas, two to Geraniaces, two 
to Meliacex, two to Olacacex, one to Celastracee, three to 
Sapindacem, three to Anacardiacew, five to Leguminos®, one to 
Rosacew, eight to Myrtacee six of which belong to the genus 
Napoleona, three to Melastomace:, thirty-four to Rubiaceæ, one 
to Ebenace», one to Oleacee, twelve to Apocynacem, four to 
Asclepiadacex, nine to Loganiacex, one to Convolvulacew, one 
to Pedalinesm, twenty-one to Acanthacee, four to Verbenaces, 
three to Aristolochiacex, three to Laurinew, two to Euphorbia- 
cer, twenty to Orchidace:, two to Liliacez, and three to Aracem. 
A few specimens have been included in the enumeration 
which were collected on a journey through Nigeria and the North 
Cameroons to the Bornu Country and Lake Chad ; the locality 
of these is indicated in each case. A full list of the plants 
collected on this journey forms an Appendix to Miss O. Macleod's 
“ Chiefs and Cities of Central Africa." 
Mr. Talbot refers to the extraordinary large number of cauli- 
florous trees and special attention was paid to these when collect- 
ing, and Mrs. Talbot has also made careful coloured drawings of 
the flowers. Many of them are new. Such are several species _ 
of Cola, Napoleona and Drypetes, species of Tetrastemma, 
Omphalocarpum, Diospyros and others. 
* This is equivalent to Afrofittonia Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xlix. 406, 
published March 28, 1913, and thus too late for notice in this memoir. 
