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Flora Capensis.—The continuation of this work, of which three 
volumes were published by Harvey and Sander, has been resumed. 
was brought to a standstill by the death of p authors, and the last 
volume was published in 1865. Part I. (pp. 1-192) has now been 
umet under the authority of the TES Sw of the Cape of Good 
Hope and Natal, and the editorship of the Director. 
The following statement is an extract from the prefatory note :— 
The three pnblished volumes of the Flora Capensis only wmm 
the southern portion of South Africa outside the tropics. 
continuation it is intended to describe, as far as possible, all Kijow 
flowering plants occurring in the area lying between the tropic of 
Capricorn and the ocean. To the north it will be supplemented, there 
fore, by the Floratof Tropical Africa. 
The volume, of which the present part is an instalment, will be of 
received as new territories to the north have been explored. Jt has been 
entirely elaborated by Mr. John Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., the keeper of 
the Herbarium and Library of the Royal Gardens, who has long been 
the accepted authority on the Petaloid Monocotyledo 
The whole area occupied by the flora has Fag pS oken up into 
regions, the physical characters of which will probably be found 
tolerably well marked.. These have been adopted in great part from 
the important paper, “ Sketch of the Flora of South Africa,” by Harry 
Bolus, Esq., F.L.S., printed in the Cape of Good Hope “ Official 
ee "'at the Colonia! and Indian Exhibition, 1886 (pp. 286- 
317). 
They may be belly € as follows : 
i Coast Region.—Includes the narrow belt lying between the 
south-western ind spi coasts from the opum to the Kei 
vers the Zwarte Ber, 
mew MOS 
ii. Central Region. ache ohly be- roughly dissy ax lyleg Bditidhn 
the coast and the Kalahari 
iii, Western Region.—Extends oes the tropie to the Oliphants 
river, and includes Great and Little Namaqualand. 
iv. Kalahari Region.—Includes the Kalahari, Bechuanaland, Griqua- 
land West, Transvaal, Orange Free Siate, and Basutola 
It therefore comprises Natal, Zululand, Griqualand 
East, &c. 
The plants of the older collectors, which are often destitute of precise 
localities, have been simply referred to under the general head of South 
Africa, 
