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New PROTEACE of Australia; dy C. F. MEISNER. 
[Read at a Meeting of the Linnean Society, January 16, 1855.) 
Few Orders of Phanerogamous plants have increased in so great a 
proportion, by the discovery of new species, during the last forty years, 
as that of Proteaceae, especially in the Australian branch of the family, 
as the original stock of which must be considered the 204 species, 
comprised in 23 genera, contained in Mr. R. Brown's ‘Prodromus 
Flore Novzs-Hollandie' (1810). In the Supplement to this work 
(1830), Mr. R. Brown has published the new Proteacee discovered in 
various parts of New Holland by A. Cunningham, Baxter, Fraser, 
Caley, and Sieber, amounting to 163 species, including one new genus. 
The next considerable addition (we omit the few new Proteacee pub- 
lished in various works and periodicals) was due to Mr. James Drum- 
mond's discoveries in Western Australia, of which Dr. Lindley gave 
an account in his *Sketch of the Vegetation of Swan River' (Bot. 
Reg. for 1839, Append.), which contains 48 new species of Proteacee. 
In the two volumes of the * Plante Preissiane’ (1844—48), the author 
of the following pages has described the new species found in the same 
part of Australia by L. Preiss, as well as those contained in Mr. Drum- 
mond’s subsequent collections (Series i-iii.), amounting to 90 new __ 
species (the supposed varieties not included). Since then, the rich 
materials supplied to him, chiefly by the liberality of British botanists, 
during his visit to England and Scotland in 1850, and for which he 
gladly takes this opportunity of expressing publicly his warmest thanks, 
have enabled him to correct some errors committed in his former paper, 
and to establish 61 new species, of which a list has been published in 
1852, in Nos. 42 and 43 of this Journal, at pages 180 and 207. The 
additions to the Family however have always been in progress, even 
during the last two years, chiefly through the exertions of the indefa- 
tigable Mr. Drummond, of whose extensive travels in several hitherto 
unexplored parts of Western Australia some account has been given by 
himself in this Journal for 1853, pages 115, 139, 177, 344, 398. His. 
fifth series, and the supplement to it, are the only part of his collections - 
of which I had not the opportunity of examining a complete set; but | 
am indebted to the kindness of Mr. R. Kippist for very accurate defi- - 
nitions, partly accompanied with drawings and fragments, of such Pro- - 
teacee contained in them as he found to be new on examining the s 
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