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Of the above Floras 
1. A grant for that we Australia was Se in 1862 by its 
several Colonial Governments, who have commissioned Mr. 
Bentham, President of the Linnean oe . caddies it. The 
first volume is now ready for publication 
The South African Flora was comm need in 1860 by Dr. 
— Professor of Botany at Trinity Osilen, Dublin, and 
Dr. Sonder, Professor of Botany at Hamburg, at their own risk 
(and certain loss), when the wobesia? Ai cma stepped in to 
their aid with a grant of £150 per 
3. The British North American Plot nies Ae ee British Colum- 
bia ‘and Vancouver's Island, has not yet been sanctioned, but it 
is at this moment under the consideration of the Governor in 
Council. 
The West Indian Flora was commened in 1858, under the 
auspices of the Secretary of State for the Colonies 8, by 
Grisebach, Professor of Botany at Goettingen, and is far advanced 
towards completion. This was commenced before the general 
plan was entertained, and neither the plan, size, nor typography 
of the work, nor the sequence of the orders, are uniform with the 
Floras since ‘unde rtaken 
5. The New Zealand Flora was commissioned by the Govern- 
ment of that Colony in 1862, and entrusted to Dr. Hooker, 
is desired to extend it to two volumes, embracing the mosses, 
lichens, seaweeds, and fungi, bioerg are far more numerous and 
difficult tha an the ‘doweitag plant 
The enumeration of Cevion plants, with localities and native 
names, but without descriptions, except of the new species, is 
nearly completed by Mr. Thwaites, Director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens in Ceylon. No Government assistance has been extended 
to it, but there is little doubt that the Colonial Getebs i neath will 
commission the same a to ears it with a descriptive Flora 
on the plan of the others 
7. The Hong Kong 7a, as ruses ‘completed by Mr. Bentham 
It is the tirst of those published according to the above plan, and 
was paid for by a grant from the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies. It is considered the model as regards arrangement and 
apo Dny after which the others will be publi ~ d. 
ey ections from the Mauritius are not yet sufficiently 
complete nas enable its Flora to be undertaken, and of the plants 
of the Seychelle Islands nothing whatever is known 
9. Considerable materials are preserved at Kew towards a Flora 
of British Guiana, but many districts remain to be botanically 
explored before its vegetation can be considered as fully Sean 
The present Governor, yeah baal sare ngaged an able botanist to 
make yen and collectio 
10. Of the Flora of Honderes. little is known, and collections 
are au required, The genera and many littoral and annual 
species being common to this country and Guiana, it is probable 
Eras these two Floras may be advantageously combined in one 
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iL “Collectors are extremely wanted in the West Afri 
Colonies. Though from the Vogt themselves the ‘materials 
are quite insufficient, immense collections, teeming with plan 
of the greatest scientific and slesoecal interest, have within io 
