256 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



Tab. V. and VI. — " Heliconia Bihai Linnaeus. . . . Flowered in 

 the royal garden at Kew, An. 1779 ; and at Bamb. 

 Gascoyne's, Esq., at Barking, in Essex, Anno 1777." 

 Tab. VII. — " Lagerstrcemia indica Linnaeus. . . . Flowered in the 

 royal garden at Kew, and at Sir James Cockburn's, Bart. 



It is noteworthy that these are dated 1780, and were thus 

 issued (if at all) during the progress of the Icones, the dates of 

 which follow. 



In the Banksian copy of the Icones 36 plates are in one volume, 

 the remainder in the other. Up to 36 all except 35 bear the 

 inscription " published as the Act directs," usually engraved but 

 sometimes added in MS. : the dates run : — 



1776—1-12. 1780—29. 



1777—13-18, 21. 1781—31. 



1778—19, 20, 22-24. 1782—32-34, 36. 



1779—25-28, 30. 



The plates in the second volume bear no dates, but according 

 to Dryander these extend to 1794. In Diet. Nat. Biogr., following 

 Watt, the date of the volume is given as 1785, but Dryander 

 doubtless had accurate information. 



The citation of Miller's name and plate of Brucea anticlysenterica 

 by L'Heritier (Stirp. Nov. t. x) in 1784 and by Aiton (Hort. Kew. 

 ii. 397) in 1789 shows that the text as well as the figure was 

 accessible to these authors, for the name does not appear on the 

 plate. Lamarck (Me"m. Acad., Paris 1784, p. 342) seems to have 

 given the same trivial name independently : he says " On donne 

 le nom de Brucea en Angleterre," &c, but goes on to show that 

 no botanist has described it, and adds " Nous le nommerons 

 Brucea anticlysenterica " : this decription he quotes in Encycl. i. 

 471. Dr. Jackson, as has been seen, dates Miller's plate 1780, 

 but for the specific name he adopts Lt' Heritiev' s ferruginea (1784), 

 although L'Heritier quotes Miller's earlier name as a synonym. 



Miller made the drawings for the plate at the behest of Banks : 

 Bruce (Travels, v., Appendix p. 72) says : " Sir Joseph Banks 

 employed Mr. Miller to make a large drawing from this shrub as 

 it had grown at Kew. The drawing was as elegant as could be 

 wished, and did the original great justice. To this piece of 

 politeness Sir Joseph added another, of calling it after its dis- 

 coverer's name, Brucea anticlysenterica." In the Department of 

 Botany are two drawings of the plant by Miller, made at Kew in 

 1776, where it was raised by seeds sent by Bruce, as we learn 

 from Kew specimens in the Banksian Herbarium. 



The name of the genus was no doubt, as Bruce states, suggested 

 by Banks, with whom, as his letters in the Banksian correspondence 

 show, he was in frequent and friendly communication. In the 

 Solander MSS. (and on one of the drawings) it is in Solander's 

 hand, as is also the very full original description. 



The synonymy is : — 

 Brucea antidysenterica J. F. Miller, Ic. 25 (1779) and Cimelia 

 Botanica t. 25, p. 51 (1796); L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. t. x 

 (1784), in syn.; Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 397 (1789) in syn. ; 



