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half the volume, but made a journey to Berlin to study the 
material preserved in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic 
seum. 
r the amended definition of the regions into which the area 
of the flora is divided reference may be made to the preface to 
the seventh volume. 
In the prefaces to the first and seventh volumes will be found 
an oe of a, LS gt employed up to 1868 and of the 
most important additions to them which have reached Kew since. 
ite! only farther calleewianh at Kew cited in the present volume 
ae NILE LAND. J. Theodore Bent. Collection from the 
coast Region of Nubia in 1895-6 (Died 1897 
V. LOWER GUINEA. Dr. o} Bommer, SEE A collection 
of Lindner’s Damaraland plan 
VI. MOZAMBIQUE. Professor C. Fritsch, Graz. A collection 
made in the Zambesi Valley ar Borie by “Rather L. Menyharth, 
8. J. (Died 1899 
The present + volume was ready for the press at the beginning of 
1898. The inconvenience of the Sat in meth aelS is obvious 
The contributors see other writers secure the tate ty of their 
work, while the oes has continnally to be re-written to 
incorporate what has been published while it is waiting for the 
rinter. For all this Iam in no way responsible. I prepare the 
work ; but over printing and publication I have not the slightest 
control. And as no less than five Government departments have 
l 
December of last year was a further impediment. Fortunately, 
poset most of the manuscript was recovered eventually from 
the 
ee ‘more volumes will complete the work as originally 
planned. Their preparation presents no inherent difficulty, but 
their fate lies on the lap of the gods. 
must again record my acknowle dgments of the See 
given me by Mr. C. H. Wright in preparing the manuscript 
the press and in checking the proofs, and to Mr. N. E. Brown for 
working out the geographical distribution. 
Weeds bake 
Kew, November 1900. 
“Terblanz” (Faurea saligna, Harv.).—Professor MacOwan, 
Government Botanist, Cape Colony, in a recent report, gives the 
following note on the identification ‘of a South African timber 
known as “ Terblanz ” :— 
EXTRACT from the se of the Cape Government Botanist for 
year 1898, pp. 6-7. 
“There has for many years been a sectd as to 4 ree of a 
Cape ornamental timber tree known as ‘Ter Nearly 
twenty years ago, Messrs. D.1 of this city, rat me a choice 
polished specimen of considerable size, which was destined for 
