Excerpt from Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol. 1: Ranunculaceæ to Connaraceæ The more original portion of the Flora of Tropical Africa is based upon the very extensive collections that have accumulated at Kew during the last ten years, sent home by the Botanists and Collectors attached to various scientific and exploratory journeys in Tropical Africa. The principal, of these collections are enumerated below. From our very imperfect knowledge of the vegetation of many parts of the Continent, even of those which have been long more or less in European occupation, and from our complete ignorance of that of the immensely larger area not yet opened up, the present work must not be regarded as presenting anything like a complete account of Tropical African Botany. It serves rather as a vehicle for the publication of the important botanical results of much recent expenditure of life, toil, and money, which would otherwise have been lost to science or anticipated by other nations, and (embracing references to all hitherto published African species) as a repertory which it is hoped may be useful to Botanists, no less than to future explorers and residents in Africa interested in the natural productions and economic products of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.