A EECOED OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN SOUTHERN 
RHODESIA. 
Arranged on Engler's System. 
Compiled by Fred. Eyles, F.L.S., 1915. 
Introduction. 
When first I began to collect the plants of Southern Rhodesia, I found 
it difficult, with the small library at my disposal, to trace descriptions of 
my specimens or to discover the records of previous collectors. For my 
own information, I then started a card-index in which I registered all 
available records of plants taken in this country, and added, wherever 
possible, references to the Floras and other standard publications wherein 
the various Rhodesian plants were described. 
From this beginning the following work has sprung, and I publish it 
now because I feel the Record, imperfect though it is, should be made 
accessible to students of African botany. I also hope it may be of 
assistance to workers in the Rhodesian field and encourage others to 
collect and study the plants of this country. 
This Record includes representatives of 160 Families, 869 Genera, 
and 2397 Species, besides 112 Varieties. 
The " flowering " plants are arranged on Dr. Engler's system as set 
out in the Genera Siplionocjamarum of Dr. C. G. De Dalla Torre & 
Dr. H. Harms, 1900-1907. 
The ferns and fern-allies are arranged in accordance with the system 
of Engler and Prantl as shown in the Chech List of Floioering Plants and 
Ferns of the Transvaal and Siuaziland, by Mr. J. Burtt-Davy, F.L.S., 
F.R.S.S.Afr., & Mrs. R. L. Pott, 1911. 
With regard to the lower cryptogams, of which unfortunately there 
are but few records, I have endeavoured to follow the arrangement given 
in Dr. Strasburger's Text Book of Botany, 1903, English edition. 
So far as the information is available, each plant record gives the 
following particulars in the order shown, but very few of the records 
are complete in each detail. 
(1) A genus number is placed in left margin opposite the first species 
of each genus. This corresponds to the number of that genus given in 
the Genera Siphonogamarum. The cryptogams (Asiphonogama) have no 
genus numbers in this Record. 
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