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Sharpe, Sir Alfred, see Purves. 



Sim, D. : Liberia, 36 specimens (unnamed), communicated 

 by Sir H. H. Johnston, on behalf of the Liberian 

 Chartered Company. 



Smythe, C. W. : Sierra Leone, 49 specimens (nam I). 

 St. Mary's Herbarium, Cape Town, see Kolbe. 



Talbot, P. A. : Northern Nigeria, 10 specimens (unnamed). 



Thomas, P. : British East Africa, Witu, 108 specimens (named), 

 communicated by Prof. A. Engler on behalf of the 

 Botanic Garden and Botanic Museum, Berlin. 



Thompson, H. N. : Southern Nigeria, Benin Division, 30 

 specimens (unnamed). 



Thomson, Major D. : Somali land, 93 specimens (unnamed). 

 Unwin, Dr. A. H. : Southern Nigeria, 35 specimens (un- 



d) 



Warn 



Warnecke,— . : West Africa, Togoland, 11 specimens (named), 

 communicated by Prof. I. Urban on behalf of the Botanic 



Garden and Botanic Museum, Berlin. 



Wellby 



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named). 



Wellman, Dr. P. C. : Angola, 73 specimens (unnamed). 



Whyte, Alexander : Uganda, 576 specimens (unnamed) \ 

 British East Africa, 286 specimens (unnamed) ; Liberia, 

 306 specimens (unnamed) (partly collected with D. 

 Sim), communicated by Sir H. H. Johnston on behalf of 

 the Liberian Chartered Company. 



Zenker, G. : Cameroons, 1546 specimens (named), purchased. 

 Various Collectors : 



(a) A set of Combretaceae and Melastomaceae, 37 speci- 



mens (named), Communicated by Prof. A. Engler 

 on behalf of the Botanic Garden and Botanic 

 Mnsemn, Berlin. 



(b) A set of Qramineae, 24 specimens (partly named), 



communicated by Prof. L. E. Bureau, on behalf of 

 the Museum •PHistoire Naturelle, Paris. 



The total number of specimens contained in these collections is 

 14,627, of which 11,740 wen presented and 2,887 purchased. 

 About 10,000 specimens were received unnamed and had to be 

 identified- So far as the specimens belonged to families published 

 in the recent volumes (1899-1906) of the Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 they have been recorded in their places, whilst others formed the 

 foundation of a considerable number of new species described in 

 the Kew Bulletin (vols, for 1901,1906 and 1907), and Hooker's 

 Icones Plantarwn. 



Whyte's, Sim's and Reynold's new Liberian species formed the 

 subject of a paper " Contributions to the Flora of Liberia " by 

 Dr. O. Stapf (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii., pp. 79-115) ; whilst the 

 whole of their collections were taken up in the same author's 



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