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* Dr. Hans Schinz, Director of the Botanic Garden and Museum, 
Ziirich, Numerous specimens collected by Dr. R. Schlechter ; loan 
of Gentianeae. 
Dr. Selmar Schénland, Curator of the Albany Museum, Grahams- 
town. Small collection of Asclepiadeae and loan of Gentianeae. 
Prof. Albert Charles Seward, F.R.S. Loan of Gentianeae from 
the University Museum, Cambridee. 
Miss Ethel West. Plants from Port Elizabeth, 
John Medley Wood, A.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Durban. Numerous Specimens of Asclepiadeae and loan of 
Gentianeae. 
Prof. E. Perceval Wright, Sec, R.I.A., Keeper of the Herbarium, 
University of Dublin. Loan of portions of Harvey’s herbarium. 
r. Alexander Zahlbruckner, Keeper of the Botanical Collections 
of the Naturhistorische Hofmuseum, Vienna. Loan of specimens of 
Asclepiadeae and Gentianeae. 
On this occasion it is appropriate to pay a brief tribute to the 
memory of Sir Henry Barkly, G.C.M.G. K.C.B., F.R.S., who 
died on October 21, 1898, It was at his instance that during his 
last period of official life as Governor of Cape Colony (1873-7) the 
flowered. Of these copies were sent to Kew, together with speci- 
mens in alcohol, accompanied by copious descriptive notes. An 
account of this material was published in Hooker’s Jcones Plantarum, 
1 
Henry Barkly’s material was a contribution to the study and 
elaboration of the group only second perhaps in value to that of 
r. Pillans. 
I may be permitted more personally to express my indebtedness 
to Lieut.-Colonel Prain for kind and unfailing assistance in many 
ways, without which the task of editing a work of this kind at a 
distance from the resources of Kew would be one of peculiar 
difficult 
1. The so-called binominal nomenclature which we employ was 
devised by Linnezus, and, as with everything he did, on a logical 
and definite basis, N othing but confusion can arise by departure 
