INTRODUCTION. 



various times by Miss Franks, Messrs. Haygarth and Wylie, the 

 last mentioned succeeding him as curator of the Durban Botanical 

 Gardens. 



Space does not permit of more than a very brief mention of 

 the numerous other collectors or writers on the Botany of Natal. 

 Vurther details may be learned from the list of publications 

 \\liich follows. Only workers in, or visitors to Natal, are men- 

 tioned, but it should be borne in mind that the Botany of Natal 

 o\^s a great deal to workers overseas especially the staff of the 

 He-barium at Kew. 

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the following list is, it is hoped, fairly complete, though 

 colle\tors who have contributed only occasional specimens are 

 omitt^l. Fourcade (who was employed by the Government to in- 

 vestigae and report on the forests of Natal), Justus Thode (who 

 collected and wrote on the vegetation of Natal. (See Biblio- 

 graphy), R. Schlechter (who collected extensively and added 

 large nuirbers of new species). O. Kuntze, A. Engler, R. Marloth, 

 Mrs. Fanun, Mrs. Saunders, Miss Ov^en, Mrs. Hutton, Miss Arm- 

 strong, Miis G. Edwards, Mrs. Bolus, Dr. E. Doidge, Mrs. Stain- 

 bank, H. Bolus, A. Bolus, G. Mann, F. Bachmann, A. Penther, 

 H. G. Flanagan, W. Tyson, H. Junod, F. Wilms, H. Rudatis, 

 Dr. Pole-Evans, Dr. Dimock-Brown, Dr. van der Byl, Dr. 

 Phillips, J. \. Henkel, A. O. D. Mogg, Dr. Schonland, Messrs. 

 Krook, StondMariott, Aitken, Gale, Boyle, Allison, Large, Davis, 

 St. George, \enkinson. Nelson, Baines, Reid, Eyles, Green, 

 Mason, Krebs,\pernando, Symons, Groom, Pearse, Grant, Hewit- 

 son, Carnegie. 



It may be we\ to state that the aliove names are not arranged 

 in any particular vrder, chronological or otherwise. 



Dr. T. R. Sim\formerly Conservator of Forests for Natal, 

 lias contributed in \js various published works a great amount 

 of information regaling the flora of S. Africa in general, in- 

 cluding that of Natal. He has made the trees and shrubs, the 

 ferns and the mosses iwd hepatics his special objects of study, 

 but he has collected exte\sivtly the other plants as well. He has 

 lately very generously piesqited his Herbarium of Flowering 

 Plants to the Botany Department of the Natal University 

 College. 



The writer of this 

 his attention to the study 

 the ecological standpoint, 

 touched so far as Natal 



wjrk has since 1910 devoted most of 

 the vegetation of Natal, chiefly from 

 field that had hitherto remained un- 



Ws concerned. 



