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name, is, as Solander's MS. description sIioavs, that in Herb. Sloane ccxvii, 

 f . 39. The plant, howeverj upon which Salisbury based his description is 

 that from Masson in Herb. Banks, where is also another sheet from tlio Cape 

 written up by Salisbury, with a note differentiating hrev[folia from caJfjchui 

 to which Dryander thou^-ht it might perliaps be referred. Solander's name 

 was not published, so that tlie actual types of the species are those to which 

 Salisbury has attached his name. 



Erica tubercularis^ Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, ri. 330. The specimen 

 from Roxburgh in the Banksian Herbarium is referred to in Fl. Cap., but 

 it is not indicated that this, with another from an old collection (not 

 specified) is the type of Salisbury's species and is so written up by hiuiself. 

 Both in the Herbarium and in Linn. Trans. {L c.) he identifies it with 

 E. inchjta^ Solander — a name hitherto unpublished, for wliich in liis !MSS, 

 Solander substituted another name. Solander's description is based on 

 the specimen sent to Kiggelaer by Van der Stell in Herb. Sloane ccxvii, 

 f. 54. 



Little is known of Kiggelaer beyond tlie note by Linnaeus in Hort. 

 Cliffort, (p. 462) when <lescribing the genus Kiggelaria : 



ii. 



Di\i arboreni 



in honorem Francisci Kifj'^eh 



iru, cnjus 



indefesso studio (piandam fioruit 

 Hortus Beaumontianns ; cujns opera tot rari,e in Euru[>am ex America 

 delata? fuere plantar ; cujus industritc debetur Hortus Bcumontianus publici 

 juris factus ; cujiis notis Commelini hortus Anistelodamensis prior illustratus 



est." The "^Hortus Beaumontianus ' was published anonymously in 1690; 

 it is a catalogue of the garden of Herbert van Beaumont (1641-86) at the 



Hague, of which Kiggelaer was curator. 



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celebcrrinii Hollandipe '' wdiich furnished material for Jacob Breyn s 

 'Prodromus' (1680) wherein reference is often made to the " niagnificus et 

 nobilissimus Dominus Herbertus a Beaumont." Dr. Day don Jackson 

 (Guide Lit. Bot. 440) says that this is *' by some attributed to S. H. van 

 Beaumont himself/^ but in a letter to Petiver (Sloane MSS. 4038, f. 283 

 not to Sloane, as stated in the 'Index to the Sloane MSS.' 200 — Kiggelaer 

 speaks of the work as his. He also contributed notes to Jan Commelin's 

 'Hortus Medicus Amstelodamensis^ (1697) and supplied the " Synonymu 

 Plantarum "— i\ e. the letterpress — to Hunting's ' Ph^tographia Ciiriosa' 

 (1713), w^hich shows that he was well acquainted with botanical literature 

 and indeed merits the title '' Botanophilus " applied to him on its title-page. 

 A Latin sonnet prefixed to the volume gracefully commemorates liiu work : 

 here his name is spelt Kiggelaar, The varied contents of his herbarium 



show that he collected on a fairly large scale and had correspondents in 

 Aniboyna and Surinam. 



A large volume (cclxi) contains, according to Sloane*s note on the title- 



page, '* plants gathered at the Cape of Good Hope and sent to Mons^ dks 



