Flora Capensis

This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (181166) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (181281). 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 (18431928) 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 11500 species of plant found in South Africa. Opening with a preface which clarifies the project''s original scope Volume 1 covers Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae.