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" Linnaeus himself in his Protea parvlflora, and afterwards 

 " more expressly by Lamarck in P. pinifolia, was first ascer- 

 " tained in Aulax and the present genus (as I am informed 

 u by Mr. Dryander) by our countryman Masson, during bis 

 " last residence at the Cape of Good Hope, aud is beauti- 

 " fully illustrated by that eminent botanical painter* Mr. 

 *' Francis Bauer, in his unpublished drawings preserved in the 

 *' Banksian collection. Numerous observations on the same 

 subject have also more recently been made by Dr. Rox- 

 burgh and Mr. Niven, who have bestowed much pains in 

 ascertaining its limits, of which, as far as regards the 

 african part of the family, Mr. Salisbury has given an ac* 

 " curate account in his essay on this natural order. The 

 dissertation of Thunberg, who was wholly unacquainted 

 with this separation of the fertile and the unfertile flowers 

 in these plants, is necessarily imperfect, and he has in 

 * e several cases described the fertile and unfertile flowered 

 " plants as distinct species; and thus also Bergius has 

 " founded his genus Aulax on the sterile flowered plant of a 

 species, whose fertile flowered plant he had previously 



published as a Leucapenpron. On the other hand, Jus- 

 sieu, deceived by the resemblance in inflorescence, be- 



" tween Bkabejum and the spiked species of Pkotea, has 

 erroneously suspected these to be monoicous, while he has 

 totally overlooked the truly dioicous nature of the present 



" genus.'* 



A sketch of the whole plant diminished, is added in the 

 annexed plate. 





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