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will therefore be supplemented by the Flora of Tropical 
Africa. 
As the assistance of competent experts became available the 
result of their labours has been printed and the work has not 
therefore out issued, as far as the volumes are concerned, in 
regular sequence. 
Three volumes have been published and portions of two others. 
The expenses of preparation and publication have been met by 
grants from the Governments of Cape Colony and Natal under 
whose authority the work has been issued. 
Handbook of the New Zealand Flora. 
The following ay ah is taken from the Natural History 
Review for 1863 (p. 498) :— 
“The Government of New Zealand [in 1862] commissioned 
Dr. [now Sir Joseph] Hooker to prepare a Manual of the Flora of 
its territories upon the same plan, form, and size, &c., as the 
Hong Kong Flora, but to include the Cryptogamic as ‘well as 
Flowering plants. This is the more liberal on the part of this 
ad, 
_of the Botany of the Antarctic Expedition, which described all the 
New Zealand Plants then known, bl greed proposed a grant 
of £350 to its author, in recomnitiGs of the scientific service he had 
thereby rendered to the Colony. The Mantal of the New Zealand 
ra is now in progress, and it is hoped that a volume will 
appear in the present year. 
The work was actually issued in two parts: the first in 1864 
and ine Bs in 1867. 
Flora of Tropical Africa. 
At an early date the Foreign Office suggested that the botanical 
results and ri, eae in Tropical Africa might be included 
in the schem 
Sir WILLIAM HOOKER TO COLONIAL OFFICE. 
(Extract.) 
oe 28th, 1861. 
discovered by our various Seer tae in the interior on the aerate 
or by Livingstone, 
