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however only two were in the Lejden ganh-n, the rest being 

 described I'rom specimens in Van Royen's IJerbarium. 



In 1738 he also published his Classes Plantariim, in which, 

 notwithstanding he appears to have composed it while engaged 

 in the arrangement of Van Royen's collection, another tiuctua- 

 tion of opinion occurs, Protea being limited as in the first edi- 

 tion of the Genera Plantarum, and to Lencadendros, which 

 here for the first time occurs, he refers the Conocarpodendron of 

 Boerhaave. 



In 1740 he published the second edition of Systema Naturae, 

 where the names Protea and Leucadendron are both given ; but 

 the references to Boerhaai'e are reversed, Protea being confined 

 to his Conocarpodendron, and Leucadendron comprehending his 

 other two genera. In this sense they also appear in the second 

 edition of the Genera Plantarum published in 1742, in which 

 the character of Leucadendron is first given, some of whose 

 species he must, from the annexed asterisk, have seen recent : 

 his description of corolla and pistillum is only applicable to 

 Lepidocarpodendron. 



In 1745 Linnaeus received the Herbarium of Herman, from 

 which he composed his Flora Zeylanica : the fourth volume of 

 this collection containing a mixture of Ceylon and African 

 plants, the latter are not noticed in this work ; but from an ifl- 

 spection of the Herbarium itself, now in the Banksian collection, 

 it appears that he had added generic names to most of them : 

 of Proteee only three species exist in the volume, of which Protea 

 conocarpa is one : of this there are on the same page two speci- 

 mens, whose heads of flowers are separately pasted ; under one 

 of these specimens he has written Leucadendron, and under the 

 second Protea ; to a specimen of Protea Herraria on a different 



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