XH. Description of Seven New Setia ORe Akiki, Hot 
abs “land. BY Edward Ruige; FA ERS. aes 
c diti. March, 5 and esL 16, 1805. . 
Tue botany of New Holland i is as yet more imperfectly known 
in proportion to the extent of d one, than that of any 
other portion of the: globe. VETT 
The collections which bata Tütberto porá their way from 
thence to Europe, have been made entirely i in the vicinity of the 
coast, the more interior parts remaining as yetto us a "Terra in- 
cognita: and from the frequent and determined opposition which - 
the new Settlers in those parts have experienced from the Natives, 
as appears by the most recent accounts, it must be many years 
before any accurate 2 knowledge can be acquired of uw. inland 
parts. 
No General Flora of this extensive country. has y Beet even 
attempted *; and all the Genera and ‘Species hitherto described 
and figured, 1 been given eithe rin detached parts, or with a 
view to exhibit a specimen of its vegetable productions. “The 
Botany of New Holland,” some Papers in our Transactions by . 
our learned and esteemed President, a few Species which have 
unaccountably found. their way into Cavanilles åth volume of 
Icones, and some detached figures i in the Botanist's Repository, 
andi in the Voyage of La iude. constitute the principss part | 
sine hi paper wa road, La Bila work onhe Plants of hice ae has 
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