Flora Capensis

Flora Capensis is a book that described the flora found in colonial South Africa, encompassing the Cape Colony, Kaffraria and the Colony of Natal, as it was known during the second half of the 19th century. Creating the book was suggested by the famous English botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker. William Henry Harvey and Otto Wilhelm Sonder took up the work of writing the first three volumes of the Flora Capensis, which were published between 1860 and 1865 by Hodges, Smith and Co. in Dublin, and A.S. Robertson in Cape Town. Parts 4 to 6 were edited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and issued over the following decades, with the supplement published in 1933.^[1]

Flora Capensis

William H. Harvey, Otto H. Sonder, Flora Capensis, 1859-1860, title page
Author	William Henry Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder
Original title	Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal.
Series	Six volumes, supplement
Subject	Botany
Publisher	Hodges, Smith and Co., Dublin, and A.S. Robertson, Cape Town
Publication date	1860–1933
Publication place	South Africa
Media type	book