Mr. Brown, on the Proteacee of Jussieu. 21 
much greater affinity with those of New Holland than of 
Africa. 
Of the botany of South Africa, scarce any thing is REIS, 
except that of the Cape of Good Hope, where this family occurs 
in the greatest abundance and variety; but even from the single 
fact of a genuine species of Protea having been found in Abys- 
sinia by Bruce, it may be presumed, that in some degree they 
are also spread over this continent. 
With the shores, at least, of New Holland, under which I 
include Van Diemen's Island, we are now somewhat better ac- 
-quainted, and in EYEN; known part of these, Proteaceæ have been, 
met with. | f 
. But it appears that, both in Africa and New Holland, the 
great mass of the order exists about the latitude of the Cape of 
Good Hope; in which parallel it forms a striking feature i in the 
vegetation of both continents. 
What I am about to advance repecting the probable distribu- 
tion of this family in New Holland, must be very cautiously re- 
ceived ; as it is in fact chiefly deduced from the remarks I have 
myself made in captain Flinders’s Voyage, and subsequently during 
my short stay in the settlements of New South Wales and Van 
Diemen’s Island, aided by what was long ago ascertained by Sir 
Joseph Banks, and by a very transitory inspection of an herba- 
rium collected on the west coast, chiefly in the neighbourhood 
of Shark’s Bay, by the botanists attached to the expedition of 
captain Baudin. 
-From knowledge so PUMA $ am inclined to hazard the fol- 
lowing observations. _ 
"The mass of the order, though. Steading through the whole 
of the parallel already mentioned, is by no means equal in every 
part of it; but on the south-west coast forms a more decided 
: feature 
