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The collections made by George E. Post (and containing many ofhis type specimens) were augmented by Mrs W. S. Edgecombe with local Lebanese ones and together form the majority of the herbarium of the American University of Beirut. These have remained in the sequence of the second edition of Post's Flora in a locked room, somewhat unavailable. Recently, considerable attention has been given to this collection and work is in progress to make the collection of use to statI, students and visitors. The types are being located, scanned and placed in protective folders. Recent collections made by the ongoing U.K. Darwin lnitiative for the Survival of Species are being added. The nomenclature used is gradually being brought up-to-date.