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for the press," practically nothing availa relating to it was 
found amongst Professor Harvey’s papers. Nor did his coadjutor, 
Dr. Sonder, who died in 1881, des eut any further part in the 
wor 
Its. continuation was urged upon Kew by Sir Henry Barkly, 
G.C.M » who was Governor of the Cape of Good 
the colonies committ ed to his charge. Sir ED er, at t 
time Director of the Royal Gardens, entrusted th e task of 
continuing the wor and l 
yself NUM left me little time for the task. It became 
numerous workers, Another difficulty was the rapid expansion 
of British South Africa. This led to a continuous influx to Kew 
of new material, which had to be determined and made available 
for future working up in the Flora. It was soon obvious that it 
would be necessary to largely extend the area comprised by the 
published volumes, and it was ultimately determined to do cua 
still further so as to include, as far as possible, all known floweri 
plants occurring in the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and 
the Oc the north, the present and future volumes will 
therefore be demus by the Flora of Tropical Africa 
During the last twenty years the time of one member of the 
ew st : : 
have been named and catalogu ued for South African botanists 
and collectors, A05 à coy ie d MH have been figured aud 
deseribed. 'T abours were a necessary preparation for the 
continuation of the Flora on its aes cale. 
reasons of convenience it has posl found advisable to 
publish the present volume in anticipation of the fourth an 
fifth, which are also in preparation, and to which it is hoped that 
Mr. Bolus, the well-known South African botanist, who has | paid 
ordinary interest to horticulturists as well as to botanists, as it 
includes the whole of the plants known familiarly as “ Cape 
Bulbs.' 
The volume has been in quenaedas for several years, but its 
publication has been from time to time delayed by the desire to 
include in it the novelties which have been continually received 
and published as new territories have been explore 
Even while passing through the press sufficient hav 'eaccumulated 
to render an appendix necessary. The whole has been Spore 
by Mr. John Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., the Keeper of the Herbari 
and Library of the Royal Gardens, who has long been the UM 
authority on the Petalo a Monocotyledons. I must add my 
obligations to Mr. C. H. Wright, Assistant in the Herbarium, who 
has greatly helped me in reading the pro 
The distribution of the loca sent eu the different regions 
has been a laborious and intricate task. It will afford a basis for 
at any rate a partial analysis of Il Flora of South Africa, which. 
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