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A LIST OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF 

 THE CAPE PENINSULA, WITH NOTES ON SOME OF 

 THE CRITICAL SPECIES. 



Compiled by 

 Harry Bolus, D.Sc, F.L.S., and Major A. H. Wolley-Dod. 



PKEFACE. 



It is a somewhat remarkable circumstance that although a ' ' Flora 

 ■Capensis," embracing the whole Colony, so far as then known, was 

 compiled by the celebrated botanist and traveller. Dr. C. P. Thunberg, 

 .about^ the beginning of the last century, and though a further and 

 much more elaborate '* Flora " of South Africa was commenced 

 .by Harvey and Sonder in 1859, and is now only approaching 

 ■completion, yet no catalogue of the plants found upon the Cape 

 Peninsula, the portion of the Colony earliest known and colonised, 

 .and that still containing the largest population, has ever been 

 compiled or published. 



The catalogue subjoined, which we have prepared from the 

 records of many collections besides our own, must be regarded as 

 a preliminary one, and only approximately complete or correct. 

 Botanists, and especially those who have visited or resided at the 

 Cape, will understand that errors of omission, probably still more of 

 •commission, must be frequent. The difficulties in the identification 

 of many of the older or more obscure species are very great, and can 

 only be overcome by time and successive workers. We have been 

 careful, as a rule, to avoid including any plant of which the evidence 

 of its having been collected on the Peninsula is not reasonably good, 

 though a certain number have been mentioned, as explained below. 

 But we have omitted some species, marked by the collectors merely 

 ** Cape Flats," unless we have other evidence of their occurrence 

 within our limits, because the Cape Flats stretch for miles beyond 

 our assumed boundary line of the Peninsula ; while yet some of those 

 so excluded may, and probably do, grow within the limits of our 

 Flora, and may hereafter be added to it. 



A brief explanation must be given of the system followed in our 

 catalogue. The species, after the first in each genus, are numbered 

 consecutively, excepting the excluded ones mentioned below. The 

 sign i before a name indicates that the species, genus, or order so 

 marked is believed to be not native within our limits. Species 

 known to be planted, though a person unacquainted with the Flora 

 might believe some of them to be native, are not included, e.g., species 

 oi Acacia, Alnus, Hakea, Piuus, Popidus, Quercus, &c. A ? after a 



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