Tlie determination of my material from Cyprus was accomplished partly at the botanical museum 

 of the Christiania University in 1906, and partly at I'Herbier Boissier at Chambésy near Geneva and at 

 the botanical museum of the University and the botanical department of the Hofmuseum in Vienna in the 

 course of the summer and autumn 1907. To the rich collections of Oriental plants preserved in these 

 museums I had the most unlimited access, thanks to the gfreat obligingness of the gentlemen in care of 

 the said institutions, viz. Prof. Dr. N. Wille, Mr. William Barbet, Prof. Dr. R. v. Wettstein and 

 Dr. A. Zahlbkucknbe. Also to Custos Ove Dahl of the botanical museum at Christiania and Mr. Gustave 

 Beauverd of the Herbier Boissier I owe great thanks for advice and assistance during my work. 



Besides my own collections I have also examined a small collection of plants from Cyprus, especially 

 from the vicinity of Limassol and Platraes, brought together by Mr. Michel G. Michaelides at Limassol, 

 who has kindly presented it to me; it is now the property of the botanical museum of the University 

 at Christiania. 



In the Herbier Boissier and the both museums in Vienna I had the opportunity of revising specimina 

 of numerous plants collected on Cyprus by earlier botanists, especially by Th. Kotschy and P. Sintenis. 



Mr. iSiMOs Menaedos, advocate at Limassol, has given me the greater part of the informations 

 concerning topographical names derivated from plant-names which are mentioned on page 202 — 204. 



The English botanist Mr. H. Stuart Thompson, who in 1906 published a valuable treatise on 

 plants from Cyprus, and who had planned further investigations on the ilora of the island, has shown me 

 the great kindness of sending me, for the use of my work, various notes compiled by him for that purpose. 



To all the gentlemen here mentioned I wish to offer my cordial thanks. I am also highly indebted 

 to the Board of Trustees of the "Bergens Museum", who has given the necessary grant for the printing 

 of my work. 



When, in the autumn of 1905, I returned to Norway with ray collections, I had no idea that so 

 many years would elapse before the account of my researches could be published. In the autumn of 1906, 

 however, I was attached at the "Bergens Museum", and in my position as director of this institution by 

 far the greatest part of my time has been occupied by my many official duties. It has occurred that my 

 scientific work had to be for years practically put aside. In my present position I should hardly have 

 ventured to undertake so extensive a work on the vegetation of a foreign country, but as the work already 

 at the time of my appointment was rather fai' advanced, I have considered it a duty— not least towards 

 all those at home and abroad who have rendered me support and assistance— to bring the work to an 

 end. It has scarcely been avoidable, that the work in some respect has suffered from being executed with 

 so many and long-lasting interruptions. 



The sheets 1 — 21 have been printed in 1908, 22 — 2.5 in 1909, 26— .HO in 1910 and the rest in 1914. 



Where in some cases illustrations have been lent from the woi'ks of other authors, the source is 

 always quoted. Most of the illustrations, however, have been reproduced either from my own photographs 

 or from drawings executed by the drawing-artists of the museum, Miss M. Abel and Mr. H. Bucher, as 

 well as by my wife, Mrs. Laura Holmboe. 



Bergens Museum, October 21st, 1914. 



JENS HOLMBOE. 



