DEDICATION. 



To Decandolle and Agardh worthy Im- 

 provers, and esteemed fellow laborers — and to 

 all the Botanists aiming to improve the lovely 

 Science of Botany by accuracy and discrimina- 

 tion, or who may wish to discard the Errors, 

 Misnomers and Absurdities of former times or 

 our own — These synoptical labors of accurate 

 observations, proper distinctions, good denomi- 

 nations and correct analysis, the result of forty 

 years of botanical researches and travels — 

 ARE INSCRIBED BY 



THE AUTHOR. 





