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A EECOED OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN SOUTHEEN 



EHODESIA. 



Arranged on Engler's System. 



Compiled by Feed. Eyles, F.L.S., 1915. 



Introduction. 



When first I began to collect the plants of Southern Ehodesia, I found 



it difficult, with the small library at my disposal, to trace descriptions of 



my specimens or to discover the records of previous collectors. For my 



own information, I then started a card-index in which I registered all 



available records of plants taken in this country, and added, wherever 



possible, references to the Floras and other standard publications wherein 



the various Ehodesian plants were described. 



From this beginning the following work has sprung, and I publish it 

 now because I feel the Eecord, imperfect though it is, should be made 

 accessible to students of African botany. I also hope it may be of 

 assistance to workers in the Ehodesian field and encourage others to 

 collect and study the plants of this country. 



This Eecord includes representatives of 160 Families, 869 Genera, 

 and 2397 Species, besides 112 Varieties. 



The " flowering " plants are arranged on Dr. Engler's system as set 

 out in the Genera Siphonogamarum of Dr. C. G. De Dalla Torre & 

 Dr. H. Harms, 1900-1907. 



The ferns and fern-allies are arranged in accordance with the system 

 of Engler and Prantl as shown in the Chcclc List of Floivering Plants and 

 Ferns of the Transvaal and Swaziland, by Mr. J. Burtt-Davy, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S.S.Afr., & Mrs. E. L. Pott, 1911. 



With regard to the lower cryptogams, of which unfortunately there 

 are but few records, I have endeavoured to follow the arrangement given 

 in Dr. Strasburger's Text Booh of Botany, 1903, EngUsh edition. 



So far as the information is available, each plant record gives the 

 following particulars in the order shown, but very few of the records 

 are complete in each detail. 



(1) A genus number is placed in left margin opposite the first species 

 of each genus. This corresponds to the number of that genus given in 

 the Genera Siphonogamarum. The cryptogams (Asiphonogama) have no 

 genus numbers in this Eecord. 

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