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EARLY CAPE BOTANISTS Alv'D COLLECTORS. 



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Liiinanis narrates that OldenlanJ's and otlier Cape collections were bron<;lit 

 to Upsala for his inspection by the younger Burnian, who.-^o ' Florae Capensis 

 Prodromus/ appended to his ' Flora Tndica ' (1768), contains nianv references 

 to Oldenland's herl)ariiini (see also Preface). 



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estaojismng tne genus Oldenlaiulia*, Plumior writes: '' Clarissimns 

 D. Henricns Bernardus Oldenlaudius Germanus, Pauli Hermani M. D. et in 

 Academia Liigduno-Batava nuper Medicina; ac Botanices Professoris Disci- 

 pulus, Medicine ac plantarnni studiosus, qnaruni gnitla ad caput bonie spei se 

 contulit, et paucis ab hinc annis 



Oldenland, howovor, was a Dane, his death occurred before 

 Aug. 31, 10^9 — the date of Petiver's reference already cited. We leara from 



periit vir, meliore 



dignus. 



fato et longiore vita 



MacO 



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reference is made later (p. 37), " the Company's garden was in turn, in the 

 charge of Oldenland and Jan Hertog." A Catalogue oi the plants collected 

 by them is appended to J. Burman's 'Thesaurus Zeylanicus' (1737), but 

 this "is almost entirely ttikou from Petrus Kolbe's ' Beschrvvino- van de 

 Kaap de Goede Hoop' (1727), where the author frankly confesses that he 



It would appear from this work as quoted by 



got it from Hertog. 

 MacO wan that the c 



hie to Oldenland and Hertog was appropriated 

 by Van der tStell, and that the latter " was not only robbed of his botanical 

 repute by [him] but suffered at his hands much as Naboth of old did from 

 Ahab." If this estimate of his character be correct, his connection witli the 



transmission. 



(see p. 37) 



The Sloane Herbarium (vol. clvi, which contains Petiver's " Ilortus 

 Siccus Cai)ensis ") includes a considerable number of Oldenland's plants, some 

 of them sent to Petiver by Oldenland himself, others by his widow, "Madam 

 Mare-aretha Hendrina van OihwoM.'' wlio promised to continue to send him 



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" whatover plants that fertile promontory produces 



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later that this promise was not fulfilled. 



Specimens from Oldenland are occasionally met with in other volumes of Herb. 

 Sloane: those in Petiver's volume are in great part named and described 

 in his MSS. by Solander, who there refers to Oldenland many specimens 

 to which no collector's name is attached. Several are named by Petiver 

 himself, who has figured them in Decade 9 of his ' Gazophylacium.' 



The last plant in this Decade is named by Petiver " Dolneus his Rock 

 Button -flower," as to which he has the folio win o- note : 



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This Plant bein^ 



wholly new both in Face and Species I have determined to record him under 

 the Name of his first Discoverer Dr. Martin Dolncus a German Physician ' 

 and Surgeon, to whom I am obliged in the Purchase of one greatest part 

 of the Paintings in this Decade, which he procured to be drawn on the Spot 



* Nov. ri. Amer. Gen. 42 (1703), in which useful biographit's are given of the botanists 

 genetically conimemorated, 



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