1070 Appendix 1: Botanical Discovery in Egypt. 
Figari-Bey was originally a disciple of Vivian and first became 
known as botanist from the collections he made during thirty years 
in Egypt’). He collected in most parts of Egypt, transmitting copious 
suites of specimens to Paris, where they constituted a large part of 
the material to the Mragmenta Florulae Aethiopico-Aegyptiacae*) of 
Baker Webb published after the author’s death. 
In 1846 Edmond Boissier, the well-known botanist of the Orient, 
visited Egypt. Some years ago Samartini and Kotschy have botanized 
in several parts of both Under- and Upper-Egypt, making several 
interesting discoveries. 
In 1867 appeared Schweinfurth’s: Beitrage zur Flora Aethiopiens, 
containing the “Aufzdhlung sémtlicher zur Zeit bekannten Phanerogamen 
und Gefaipkryptogamen aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Nillinder” by Ascher- 
son & Schweinfurth. In preparation of their following Standard-work, 
in addition to using their own collections, they had the privilege of 
examining all the other collections, made by Pfund, Klunzinger, Sicken- 
berger, Cramer, Heuser and Suermondt, Volkens, Dejlers, Gaulardot, 
Schneider and Hwrst. The number of persons who have collected plants 
or published memoirs relating Egypt botany during the following 
years which have elapsed since the publication of ‘Bectrdge z. Flora 
Aethiopiens” is not so large that I canmot allude to the chief workers 
here: Schweinfurth*), Klunzinger*), Comes®), Barbey °®), Schneider “*) 
and Hort’). 
Finally in 1887 Ascherson and Schweinfurth published their 
“Illustration de la Flore d@ Egypt’. This publication gave an immense 
impetus tho the study of the indigenous vegetation and it must 
always remain the foundation for future systematic work on botany 
of Egypt. For the first time the student was provided with an 
account of the flora characterized by accuracy of detail, and prepared 
by botanists who had not only studied and collected the largest 
proportion of the species in their native habitats, but whose position 
1) Studi scientifici sull’Kgitto. — 1850. 
2) Parisiis 1854. 
3) Ausfliige um Kosseir, Brief an Dr. Kotschy. — Wien 1865. 
4) Die Vegetation der aeg.-arab. Wiiste bei Koseir (Zeitschr. Gesellsch. 
fiir Erdkde zu Berlin XILI, 1878 p. 482—462). 
®) Catologo delle piante raccolte dal Professore A. Costa in Kgitto e 
Palestine nel 1874. — Napoli 1880. 
6) Herborisation au Levant. — Lausanne 1882. 
7) Uber die Flora der Wiiste um Ramleh. (Sitzber. Gesellsch. Isis zu 
Dresden, 1871 p. 152-161). 
8) List of Desert Plants collected at Ramleh near Alexandria, Egypt. 
(Mém. Litt. and Phil. Soc. Manchester, Ser. III Vol. VI 1878 p. 151—156). — 
List of Leguminosae observed growing near the Egyptian Sea-Shore, West of 
Rosetta (1. «. VII, 1880 p. 53—65). 
