THE OAi^U^^ 



JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



BANKS AND SOLANDER'S AUSTRALIAN FIGS. 



By W. p. Hiern, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Plate 417.) 



Besides the drawings executed by various artists for the original 

 sketches made by Sydney Parkinson during Cook's First Voyage, 

 which were engraved on copper and are now being issued by the 

 British Museum, there are several which were not engraved. Some 

 of these are merely sketches by Parkinson ; of others there are also 

 finished drawings, many of them of equal interest with those 

 engraved. The Museum publication, save in one or two cases of 

 exceptional importance, only reproduces the engraved plates ; but 

 among those of which only the drawings exist are some which are 

 well worth publishing, as they represent species which have not 

 been met with since Banks's time, and of which no other figures 

 exist ; one such, Drosera Banksii, was reproduced last year in this 

 Journal (t. 410B, fig. B.). 



Among them are five finished drawings of Figs, made by F. P. 

 Nodder from Parkinson's sketches, to which Mr. Britten directed 

 my attention while I was elaborating the Muracece of the Welwitsch 

 collection. The specimens collected by Banks and Solander are in 

 the National Herbarium, and as two out of the five apparently have 

 not been described, it may be worth while to publish some account 

 *'of the series. Of the two in question, I have drawn up descriptions, 

 ' based upon the specimens and figures, in which I have availed 

 myself of certain details from Solander's MSS. ; of the three 

 previously known species I have quoted Solander's description, in 

 accordance with the plan adopted by Mr. Britten in the III ast rations 

 of the Botany of Cook's Voyage. 



1. Ficus Parkinsoni Hiern, sp. n. Arbor mediocris glabra 

 lactescens, ramis obsolete angulatis, ramulis crassiusculis carnosulis 

 longitudiualiter corrugatis levibus ochraceis apicem obtusam versus 

 foliosis, foliis alternis sparsis suboblique ovali-oblongis apice bre- 

 vissime subacuminatis obtusis vel subacutiusculis basi rotundatis 

 vel obtuse angustatis inconspicue 3-5-nerviis coriaceis integris 

 patentibus petiolatis baud scabridis super nitidis amoene viridibus 



Journal OF Botany. — Vol.39. [Jan. 1901.] b 



