Reissued in ten parts, originally published 1894-1933, this botanical catalogue covers over 11,500 species of plant in South Africa.

Reissued in ten parts, originally published 1894-1933, this botanical catalogue covers over 11,500 species of plant in South Africa.

This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Volume 5 appeared in three parts, the second comprising sections published between 1915 and 1925, covering Thymelaeaceae to Ceratophylleae. The 1933 supplement on Gymnospermae is also incorporated in this reissue.

This influential Latin reference work on South African plants, by a Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus, appeared in 1823.

Hydrophyllaceae, Gentianaceae, Afrika