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“ Geheimrath Dr. A. Eneumr, Director of the chant Garden 
and Museum, Dahlem. Loan of Selaginee and Protea 
Sere Cae LAHAULT, Director of the Institute "oF Botany, 
University Se Montpellier. Pree of Basutoland Plants. 
wees ALPIN, Esq., F.L.S8., Queenstown, Cape Colony. Large 
collections of South African plants and loan of portions of his 
private Herbarium. 
“Dr. H. O, JuE Director of the Botanic Garden, Upsala. 
Loan of portions of athens re’s Herbarium 
“ Prof. C. A. M. Linpman, Curator of the Botanic Department 
of the oats History Museum, Stockholm. Loan of Proteacee. 
“Dr. J. Mu Specimens from the Riversdale District. 
“Dr. L. PiérinevueEy, Director of the South African Museum, 
Cape Town. Various duplicates and loan of specimens from the 
South African Museum. 
on P. Puiuiires, Esq., M.A. Pail ceson of Proteacee and 
others. 
“Mrs. R. Porr (formerly Miss R. LEENDERTZ). Plants from 
Transvaal. 
“Prof. Hans Scntnz, Director of the University Botanic 
Garden and Museum, Ziir - Large collections of South African 
plants and loan of specim 
r. S. SCHONLAND, Ciieatos of the Albany Museum, Grahams- 
fone. Gonitsibuaiiie and loan of specimens of Proteacee and 
others, 
“Prof. E. WARMING, late Director of the Botanic Garden, 
Cope teens ai a agin 
tie L.S., Director of the Botanic 
Garden, Duchan. Slactive of Natal plants and loan of speci- 
“ it. as wa Neen SRE Keeper of the Botanic Department 
of oe Hofmuseum, Vien Loan of Labiate and Proteacee. 
“I must allow ale more re personally to ore my indebtedness 
to Lieut.-Colonel Pratiy, C.M.G., C.LE., F.R.S., Director of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, for kind and unfailing assistance in man ny 
ways, without which the task of editing a work of this kind at 
a distance from the resources of Kew could hardly be accom- 
ishe 
“It has been the practice, at any rate in the more recent works 
that have emanated from Kew, to conform tu the classification and 
sequence of orders adopted in BenrnHam and Hooker’s Genera 
Plantarum. This work was not available to Professor HaRvEY 
when he commenced the Flora Capensis, and he appears to have 
based himself on the Prodromus of AucusTin PyRramus DE 
Genera Plantarum has been followed. There is in consequence 
an inconsistency between the earlier and latter portions of the work 
in regard to the delimitation of the sub-classes adopted, which, 
although of little practical importance, inasmuch as it scarcely 
affects the sequence of the orders, it is desirable to clear u ow 
this arises will be apparent from the statement with which rofessor 
HARVEY commences the preface to his third volume: ‘This . 
contains the orders of CaLycrrior# with a monopetalous corolla 
