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Sloane MSS. 4062 f. 214. 



Amsterdam " waited 



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London visited Holland in 1G85 and at 



who roceivod nie with extraordinary 



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respect and kindness and comploniented mo soe far as to tell me that his 

 garden should aliways be open to me at any time whenever I came and let 

 me command all his plants in y" garden and then his Hortns Siccus whicl 

 consists of all y« dry'd plants of y« 5 vollms of y- Horfcus Malabaricus. 

 After which he shewed me his collection of seeds w'' are in an excellent 

 method and great varieties of his own collection in y« East Indies." 



In his 'Flora Capensis/ Linnaeus, having paid tribute to Hermann in 

 terms already quoted, continues : " Ejusdem messis fuere etiam pancie illte 

 quas Th. Bartholinus in actis Hafifhieii^ibus vol. ii. p. 57 & 347 memorat.'* 

 Little is known ot Thomas Bartholinus (l(ilG-l(;80) beyond the paper here 



referred to * : it was doubtless to him and not, as Pritzel states, to his son, 

 that Robert Brown dedicated the Cape genus BarthoUna. Hi 



IS paper seems 



to have been almost entirely overlooked ; it is not included in the " Catalooue 

 of Books and Papers relating to South Africa" (part .1, Botany), by 

 MacOwan an! Bolus, published in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. ii. 111-187 

 (1882 J. Its interest as being apparently the first j^aper devoted exclusively 

 to Cape plants, coupled with its brevity, may justify its reprint : I have 

 dded references to the plates which accompany it, and identifications of the 

 species : 



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" Plants noyjh Africans 



111 



"A. 1073. ex India Orieiitali redux Hafniam Hieremias Stalk Chirurgus, 

 medio itinere, in Promontorio nempe bon£e spei, a I). Paulo Herman no 



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Medico, qui alias in Insuhe Ceilon urbe Columba habitat, accepit plantas 

 quasdam ibidem in Capitae bonae spei natas, quarum exsiccatarum nobisq ; 

 communicatarum hie icones dainus, nitida Oligeri Jacohni manu, quia alibi 

 descriptas vel depictas non inveni, aliis inquircndi occasionem daturus. 



Eupatorium Indicum fl. albo. [t. 4, f. 3. Baccliarls ivw/olia L.]. 

 Laurus Africana serrat. foliis. [t. 3, f. 2. ]\J>/rica cetMopica L.]. 

 Sideritis African, fl. aureo oblongo. [t 2, f. 1. Leonotls Leonurus L.]. 

 Erica African, iimbellata flore pui'pureo. [t. 2, f. 2. Erica 



thoides L.] . 

 Verbena Indica lanuginosa fl. rubente. [t. 4, f, 2. Manulea rubra L. f.l. 



cerin- 



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] 



Canna Africana minor fl. suaverubente. [t. 3, f. 1. Gladiolus lucidor 



Baker]. 



Verbena Africana minor fl. luteo. 



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The list is followed by an enumeration of ten plants of which seeds were 

 brought at the same time ; these were planted, and an account of the result 



* lie edited the second edition of Gesiier^a ' De raria , . , . herbia ' (Ilafn. 1GG9), 



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