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set of Mr. W. W. Saunders, and comparing the specimens with several 
London herbaria, and I thankfully avail myself of his permission to 
publish them in the following pages. The sixth series of Mr. Drum- 
mond's plants, which has reached us but lately, is proportionally one 
of the richest in Proteacee, which form about one-fifth of the whole 
set, and contain not less than 44 new species out of 50 numbers! 
To conclude this survey, by summing up the above-mentioned addi- 
tions, we find that since the year 1810 upwards of 400 new species 
have been added to the 204 contained in Mr. R. Brown's * Prodromus, 
viz. 163 by Mr. R. Brown, 48 by Dr. Lindley, and 195 by the author 
of the present account. It is a very remarkable fact that such a large 
increase of species has not added to this Order one single new genus, 
nor even produced any important alteration in the characters and limits 
of the established ones,—a new and most signal proof of the acuteness, 
and of the deep and sound sense of the “idea generis” with which 
they were founded by the immortal monographer of Proteacee. In- 
deed, I can only mention two plants which, disagreeing in several re- 
spects with all the known genera, will probably prove to be new ones; 
but unfortunately they were both found only in fruit, and collected in 
so few and scanty specimens, that we were unable to ascertain, with suf- 
ficient aceuracy and completeness, their generic characters. ‘The one of 
them, being in Drummond’s coll. vi. n. 190, will be mentioned here- 
after under the name of Grevillea ? cynanchicarpa; the other was found 
by Mr. Strange near Moreton Bay, a single specimen, which I have 
been allowed to examine. These two plants resemble one another in 
; habit, foliage, and in solitary, axillary, oblong, woody, one-seeded ? fol- 
. licles, but appear to differ in the structure of the seed. That of More- 
ton Bay, for which I would propose the name of Strangea, in memory 
of its discoverer, has pendulous follicles (about 13 inch long, 6 lines 
> broad), attenuated at both ends, bearing no remains of style or stigma, 
compressed, with nearly flat and quite smooth and even sides, very 
blunt one-grooved edges, in the middle of which they split the whole 
length, forming two perfectly similar valves. The specimen bears only 
: two follicles (in the lower axils of the branch), the upper one apparently 
mete developed, but only beginning to split on one edge, and showing 
E the nerviform margin of the seed, which we durst not take out, for fear 
: of spoiling the specimen ; the other apparently less perfectly developed, 
Mough siready split to the base into two narrow, convex, and rather 
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