VI PREFACE. 



and correspondents who have enthusiastically and generously 

 aided me by procuring and sending living specimens from distant 

 parts of the country. 



I must especially record my obligations to the great national 

 establishment at Kew, whose authorities have at all times afforded 

 me every assistance ; to Prof. Oliver, F.K.S., who has seen, and 

 revised for me the proof sheets of the plates for the press during 

 my residence at the Cape ; also, at the Cape, to Prof. MacOwan, 

 Prof. Bodkin, Prof. Guthrie, and Dr. Marloth, of Cape Town ; 

 to Mr. H. G. Flanagan, of Komgha ; to Messrs. E. Galpin and 

 W. Culver, of Barberton ; to Dr. S. Schoenland, and Mr. J. 

 Glass, of Grahamstown ; to Mr. T. R. Sim, Curator of the Botanic 

 Gardens, King William's Town ; and to Mr. J. Medley Wood, 

 Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Durban, Natal. Last, but not 

 least, to Mr. Eudolf Schlechter, an enthusiastic and diligent 

 botanist and collector, who has lately arrived from Germany, and 

 is at present engaged in an extensive tour throughout South 

 Africa. This gentleman has already made considerable additions 

 to our knowledge of the Cape Flora, and has been good enough 

 to furnish me with many living specimens, and to aid me with 

 his observations and advice upon several critical species. 



H. B. 



Cape Town, March, 1893. 



