Appendix I. 
Botanical Discovery in Kgypt. 
The history of botanical discovery in Egypt falls conveniently 
into two periods. The first commences with the year 1761, in which 
Forskal made his first visit, and closes with the year 1867, in which 
Ascherson and Schweinfurth published their: “Aufzdhlung sdmtlicher 
zurzeit bekannten Phanerogamen und Gefapkryptogamen aus dem 
Gesamtgebiete der Nilldnder’”*). During the hundred and six years 
comprised between these dates, many voyages of discovery or sur- 
vey in Egypt were undertaken by many botanists. This period may 
therefore be appropriately called the period of investigation by visi- 
tors from abroad. That period extending from 1865 to the present 
time can be just as correctly styled the period of naturalists resident 
longtimes in Kgyt. 
Commencing with the voyages the first in order of time, as 
well as in degree of importance, is Forskal’s visit (1761 —1762). 
The natural-history collections contained a large amount of material. 
The “lora aegyptiaco-arabica” which has been published after his 
death, contained in the descriptions many new species, illustrated 
by few plates. 
In 1798 an expedition under the command of NapoleonI. arrived 
Egypt. The expedition visited the wholy country, when Delile, who 
acted botanist, made a splendid collection of plants. The official 
record of the voyage, which appeared under the title of “Description 
de l’ Egypt” contains a folio Atlas of botanical plates (“Flore d’ Egypte”) 
and one volume of descriptive matter (“/lorae aegyptiacae Illustratio”’). 
The following years subsequent to the publication of the «Deserip- 
tion del Egypt’ formed a period of great activity in botanical research 
in Egypt, such as Caillaud, Sieber, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Sucho, 
Brocchi, Acerbi®), Aucher Eloy, Bové, Schimper and Kotschy. 
1) Schweinfurth: Beitrag zur Flora Aethiopiens. — Berlin, Reimer 1867. 
2) His collections has studied and published Visiani: Plantae Aegypti ac 
Nubiae and Icones Plantarum quarund. Aegypti ac Nubiae, — Pataviis 1836. 
