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Besides the maps already cited in the Prefaces to Volumes VI. 
and VII., the following have also been used :-— 
ap of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neighbouring 
territories. Compiled from the best available information.. By 
John Templer Horne, Surveyor-General. 1895. 
Stanford’s new map of the Orange Free State and the southern 
part of the South African Republic, &c. 1899. 
Carte du Thédtre de la Guerre Sud-Africaine. Par le Colonel 
Camille Favre. 1902. 
To many of the South African correspondents of Kew enume- 
rated in previously published volumes I have again to tender my 
acknowledgments for the contribution of specimens in aid of the 
work to the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens. 
I must further record my obligations to some new contributors, 
and to those whose kind assistance in various ways has been of the 
greatest value in the preparation of this section of Volume IV. 
Harry Bolus, Esq., D.Sc., F.L.S., has continued his generous 
gifts of specimens, besides lending others from his herbarium of 
Asclepiadeae and Gentianeae, including many types of Dr. Schlechter’s 
species, 
Dr. John Briquet, Director of the Botanic Garden, Geneva. 
Loan of specimens from the Delessert Herbarium. 
Paul Conrath, Esq. Plants from the Transvaal. : 
Joseph Burtt Davy, F.L.S., Government Agrostologist and 
Botanist, Transvaal. Plants from the Transvaal. 
Dr. Casimir de Candolle, Geneva. Photograph and loan of 
specimen from the Candollean Herbarium. 
Geheimrath Dr. A, Engler, Director of the Botanic Garden and 
useum, Berlin. Loan of Gentianeae. 
Dr. H. O. Juel, Director of the Botanic Garden, Upsala. Loan 
of portions of Thunberg’s herbarium. 
Prof. Paul Henri Lecomte, Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Photo- 
graphs of Lamarck’s types of Chironia. 
Miss R. Leendertz. Plants from the Transvaal. 
Dr. H. W. C. Lenz, Director of the Museum, Lubeck. Loan of 
E. Meyer’s types of Asclepiadeae and (rentianeae. 
Dr. C. A. M. Lindman. Loan of specimen of Chironia from the 
herbarium of P. J. Bergius, Stockholm. 
Dr. John P. Lotsy, Director of the Royal Herbarium, Leiden. 
Loan of specimens of Gentianeae. 
Dr. Rudolph Marloth, Capetown. Stapelieae, living and in fluid. 
Miss A. Pegler. Plants from the Transkei.. ca 
Dr. G. Albert Peter, Director of the Botanic Garden, Gottingen. 
Loan of specimens of Gentianeae.. ie 
N.S. Pillans, Capetown, Large collection of Stapelieae, living 
and in fluid, including many new species, and the loan of his large 
and valuable herbarium of the group. The generous aid of this 
enthusiastic collector and the free use of his copious notes have 
een of the greatest value in the difficult task of working out the 
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Humphrey John Sankey, Esq. Plants from the vicinity of 
Harrismith, Orange River Colony. 
