INTRODUCTION. 5. 



various times by Miss Franks, Messrs. Haygarth and Wylie, the 

 last mentioned succeeding him as curator of the Durban Botanical 

 Gardens. 



Space does not permit of more than a very brief mention of 

 the numerous other collectors or writers on the Botany of Natal. 

 Further details may be learned from the list of publications 

 which follows. Only workers in, or visitors to Natal, are men- 

 tioned, but it should be borne in mind that the Botany of Natal 

 owes a great deal to workers overseas especially the staff of the 

 Herbarium at Kew. 



The following list is, it is hoped, fairly complete, though 

 collectors who have contributed only occasional specimens are 

 omitted. Fourcade (who was employed by the Government to in- 

 vestigate and report on the forests of Natal), Justus Thode (who 

 collected and wrote on the vegetation of Natal. (See Biblio- 

 graphy). R. Schlechter (who collected extensively and added 

 large numbers of new species). O. Kuntze, A. Engler, R. Marloth, 

 Mrs. Fannin, Mrs. Saunders, Miss Owen, Mrs. Hutton, Miss Arm- 

 strong, Miss G. Edwards, Mrs. Bolus, Dr. E. Doidge, Mrs. Stain- 

 bank, H. Bolus, A. Bolus, G. Mann, F. Bachmann, A. Penther, 

 H. G. Flanagan, W. Tyson, H. Junod, F. Wilms, H. Rudatis, 

 Dr. Pole-Evans, Dr. Dimock-Brown, Dr. van der Byl, Dr. 

 Phillips, J. S. Henkel, A. O. D. Mogg, Dr. Schonland, Messrs. 

 Krook, Stone, Mariott, Aitken, Gale, Boyle, Allison, Large, Davis, 

 St. George, Jenkinson, Nelson, Baines, Reid, Eyles, Green, 

 Mason, Krebs, Fernando, Symons, Groom, Pearse, Grant, Hewit- 

 son, Carnegie. 



It may be well to state that the above names are not arranged 

 in any particular order, chronological or otherwise. 



Dr. T. R. Sim, formerly Conservator of Forests for Natal, 

 lias contributed in his various published works a great amount 

 of information regarding the flora of S. Africa in general, in- 

 cluding that of Natal. He has made the trees and shrubs, the 

 ferns and the mosses and hepatics his special objects of study, 

 but he has collected extensively the other plants as well. He has 

 lately very generously presented his Herbarium of Flowering 

 Plants to the Botany Department of the Natal University 

 College. 



The writer of this work has since 1910 '■ devoted most of 

 his attention to the study of the vegetation of Natal, chiefly from 

 the ecological standpoint, a field that had hitherto remained un- 

 touched so far as Natal was concerned. 



