We are especially indebted to Mr. I. B. Pole Evans^ Govern- 

 ment Botanist, and Mr. C. C. Eobbrtson, Forest-Research 

 Officer at Pretoria, for kindly rendering the records of their 

 oflQces accessible to us, and to Professor Hubertus Elpfbrs 

 (Wynberg) and Dr. W. Purcell (Diep River) for various 

 suggestions with regard to the orthography of names and the 

 typographical arrangements. 



Numerous other friends have contributed names or plants 

 for identification, or communicated items of interest concern- 

 ing them, or helped us in compiling the list of foreign plants. 

 In recording their names hereafter we take this opportunity 

 of thanking them all for their assistance and apologize at the 

 same time to others whose names may have been inadvertently 

 omitted. 



Some readers may think that we ought to have included 

 more Kafir names of plants. This would have meant at least 

 a thousand additional names and consequently a considerable 

 increase in the size of the book, which does not appear to be 

 justified at present. Some information on this subject may 

 be found in Sim^s Forest F 1 o r a s, in Andrew Smithes 

 Materia medica and in the Rev, Alfred Bryant's Zulu 

 medicines ( See Literature) . 



The number of common names recorded here is nearly 2000, 

 most of them not published before, and the number of species 

 of wild plants close upon 1200. 



As soon as sufficient further material has accumulated we 

 intend to issue a supplement, and— if justified — perhaps a 

 second edition. 



R. Marloth. 



