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Excerpt from Flora Capensis, Vol. 7: Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal and Neighbouring Territories The elaboration of the Monocotyledonous orders, to which the seventh and concluding volume of the Flora Capensis is devoted, is a task of no small difficulty. They can only, indeed, be dealt with satisfactorily by those who have made them an object of special study. But as it has been my good fortune to secure the co-operation of botanists who are acknowledged authorities on these orders, it has been determined to proceed with them at once. And it seemed especially desirable to lose no time in publishing the enumeration of the grasses, which must necessarily be of great practical interest in a country so largely pastoral as South Africa. 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.