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derived the plant on wliicli Smith (in Rees, Cyclop, xxxiv.) founded the 

 species. 



Banks and Solandek visited the (^apo on llicir return voyao;e, dis- 



en)l)arkino 



^ on March 14, 1771, and remaining there for a month. For 

 more than half tliat time Solander was '^ confined to his bed or chamher/' 

 and his iHness deprived Banks of the ''opportunity of makino* even one 

 excursion " into the country"^. They nevertheless made the most of their 

 opportunities ; the MS. Index in Solander^s hand, arranged sj'stematicaliy 

 according to Linnaeus, contains 369 names. Accompanying the list are 

 full descriptionSj subsequently transcribed for pul)lieation, of plants of whicl 

 the names at present r<^ceived are Mundtia i^pinosa^ Kunthj Gardenia Thvn- 

 berqia, L. f., Acatia liornda^ AVilld., Tetrayoma decumhens^ Mill., Eclunopsilon 



oq., Statice peregrina, Berg.^ Tulhagliia aciitiloha^ Harv,, and a 



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dlfusuSy Moq., Statice 



plant, referred in the MS. to Atriplex with an unpul)lislied nanip, which 1 

 have not identified. Of these I have found specimens of all save tlie Statice 

 in the herbarium. In the transcribed description of Gardenia TJtunhergia 

 reference is made to ^^ fig. pict./' which apparenlly indicates no, IG of 

 Masson's drawings [see p. 51]. 



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William RoxburctH (1751-1815), whose name is inseparably associated 



wuth Indian botany, '' resided a tw^elvenionth ^' at the Cape, whence he sent 

 plants and seeds to Lambert and also to Banks ; the endorsement of one of 

 the Banksian sheets fixes tlio date as 1799, Many of the species of Erica 

 described by Salisbury in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. are based on the Banksian 

 specimens and arc named in Salisbury's hand. In 18(58 Dr, R, Alexander 

 Prior presented to the Department of Botany a large number of sheets fron; 

 his herbarium, among which were many South African plants. These bear 

 printed tickets — '' CB.S., lloxburgh " and are sometimes accompanied by 

 small tickets in Roxburgh's hand. David Don^ in his account of Lambert's 

 herbarium appemled to tluit author's 'Pinus/ states that '^ John Roxburgh 

 resided at the Cape four or five years for the purpose of collecting plants [and] 

 sent a verv large collection of specimens" to Lambert. [In Journ. Bot. 

 1918, pp- 28-31, Sir David Prain gives a full account of John Roxburgh, 

 w^ho '' w^as not the son of one of the three ladies whom William Roxburgh 

 married." He was wdth liis father at the Cat)e in 1798-9 and remained 



there till 1804,] 



Robert Brown in his monograph of Proteacea^ (Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. x.), 



acknowledges 'Hhe great assistance derived from tlie extensive collection 



presented to this Society by Dr. Roxburgh, wlio during his short residence 



at the Cape appears to have paid particular attention to this tribe of plants 



and .. . hali given a greater value to his herbarium by numerous observations 



* Banks's Journal, ed. J. D, Hooker, 429, 437, 



