CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS PART Text Anthony R. Brach, Missouri Botanical Garden, c/o Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-2094, United States of America Xia, Nian-he, Herbarium IBSC, Department of Taxonomy, South China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wushan, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China Illustrations Illustrations in this work have been reproduced from Z.Y.Wu, & P.H.Raven (eds.), Fl. China, Illustr. 4: 122 (2001), with kind permission from Missouri Botanical Garden Press. iv
<strong>Species</strong> <strong>Plantarum</strong> Steering Committee (as at May 2005) G. Achoundong, Herbier National de Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon C.E. Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA A. Anton, Museo Botánico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina W. Berendsohn, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin, Germany D.E. Boufford, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Mass., USA L. Boulos, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt R.K. Brummitt, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK S. Castroviejo, Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid, Spain A.C. Chikuni, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Lilongwe, Malawi M.D. Correa, Universidad de Panamà, Panama T.F. Daniel, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif., USA D.Darnaedi, Kebun Raya Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia P. Dávila, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales, UNAM, Tlalnepantla, Mexico T.S. Filgueiras, Reserva Ecológica do IBGE, Brasilia, Brazil E. Forero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia I. Friis, Botanical Museum and Library, Copenhagen, Denmark V. Funk, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA D. Geltman, Komarov Botanical Institute, St Petersberg, Russia A.S. George, Kardinya, WA, Australia W. Greuter, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin, Germany C. Hilton-Taylor, I.U.C.N., Cambridge, UK Hong D.Y., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China K. Iwatsuki, Yokohama, Japan B. Jonsell, Uppsala, Sweden B. Khayota, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya J. Kirschner, Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic H.P. Linder, Institut für Systematische Botanik, Zurich, Switzerland P.-A. Loizeau, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Genève, Switzerland J.L. Luteyn, New York Botanic Gardens, Bronx, New York, USA K. Marhold, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia M. Moraes, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia P. Morat, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France N.R. Morin, The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Arizona, USA Nguyen T.H., Institute of Ecology & Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam H. Ohashi, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan R.J. Pankhurst, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK M. Sanjappa, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, India T. Santisuk, Royal Forest Department, Bangkok, Thailand Sebsebe Demissew, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia J.H. Seyani, National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens, Zomba, Malawi G.F. Smith, National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa W.D. Stevens, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA v