JUN 111912 Geren fy hy, RL 
PREFACE. 
As the last catalogue of the garden was published in 
1897, a new edition becomes necessary, on account of the 
changes which a large garden undergoes during so many 
years. Naturally, such a catalogue can never be considered 
as complete as is the catalogue of a library. It is almost 
antiquated by the time it is published, as new plants 
are constantly being introduced and others disappear. I 
think it therefore necessary to point out that no one must 
expect to find in the garden at the present moment every 
plant mentioned in this catalogue, nor in the catalogue the 
name of every plant to be found in the garden. 
The large collection recently made by Mr. Wilson in 
China and the plants collected in 1909-10 for the garden by 
Dr. J. Brunnthaler in South Africa are for the greater part 
yet undetermined and therefore only partly included. 
Nevertheless, the present catalogue will be of help to 
students who visit the garden, and will give correspondents 
an idea of what is cultivated or has been tried. 
The nomenclature adopted is that of the Index Kewensis, 
Engler and Prantl’s Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, the 
Colonial Floras edited from Kew, and the more important 
recent monographs, without adhering rigidly to any one of 
them. The references do not always give the original de- 
scription and are not strictly chronological, but indicate 
where reliable descriptions and figures can be looked up in 
the library of the garden. 
The first two catalogues of the plants grown at La 
Mortola—one being an alphabetical, the other a systematic, 
enumeration of about 3600 species then in cultivation—were 
compiled by the Curator, the late Gustav Cronemeyer, and 
published in 1889. They were distributed to all Botanical 
Gardens and to many other correspondents, with permission 
to draw upon the collection for all scientific purposes. Pre- 
vious to this, in 1883, a list of seeds containing the names 
of 557 species was printed and circulated, and since that 
time has been issued annually. Seeds and plants are 
