58 THE PROTEACEiE OF AUSTRALIA, 



from the total absence of any one plant of Proteacece at those 

 parts of Rottnest and Dirk Hartog's Islands visited during the 

 Batliurst's voyage, an inference may be drawn of the general 

 paucity of any part of the order on the shores of the neighbouring 

 main." Since the days of Cunningham, who, amidst many 

 discouragements and disappointments, did so much to promote the 

 knowledge of Australian vegetation, our views have been some- 

 what modified as to the distribution of the Proteacece and the 

 genera prevalent in particular regions. Bavon Mueller, when in 

 company with A. C. Gregory, in 1856, illustrated the Flora of 

 Arnheim's land by the i-ecord of some 800 species of plants, 

 amongst which he mentions 45 species of Proteacece, including 

 Conospermum (1), Helicia (1), Persoonia (5), Orites (1), GreviUea 

 (22), Eakea (7), Lomatia (1), Stenocarpus (2), and Banksia 

 (5). Banksia Dentata he found at the mouth of the Victoria 

 river, whilst he saw specimens of the same species from the 

 promontory Escape Cliffs. (Frag., Vol. 7, p. 57.) In the Flora 

 Australiensis, Vol. 5, \^. 555, it is also recorded from the Glenelg 

 River (125° E.) The only Proteaceons plants collected at Nickol 

 Bay and the Murchison River, by Mr. Pemberton Walcott and 

 Mr. Maitland Brown in 1861, were Hakea lorea (R. Br.) and 

 GreviUea Wickhami (Meissn.), but several species of Banksia (B. 

 sphceroc^ir2}a, B. Menziesii, and B. Lindleyana) are known from 

 the latter locality. In the recent list of Western Australian 

 Plants, 1883, collected by the Hon. John Forrest, at Shark's Bay 

 and its vicinity, Banksia is not enumerated, but the following 

 species appear to be indigenous there, as specimens of them were 

 seen and examined by Baron Mueller : — 

 Gonosjiermum Skechadis, Endh 

 GreviUea pterosper7na (F. v. M.) 



stenobotrya (F. v. M.) 



chrysodeniron (R. Br.) 



annulifera (F. v. M.) 



leuGopteris (Meissn.) 



striata (R. Br.) 



de/lexa{F. v. M.) 

 Hakea Citnninghami (R. Br.) 



