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A genus of Goodenovieae — Dampiera, E. Br. — is dedicated 

 to Captain Dampier, besides the beautiful Glory Pea, CUanthus 

 Dampieii, A. Cunn. 



1770. — To Mr. (afterwards Sir) Joseph Banks and Dr. D. C. 

 Solander, the naturalists of Capt. Cook's first voyage in the ship 

 "Endeavour," is due the honor of making the first systematic 

 botanic collection in Australia. Tlieir labours brought to our 

 knowledge about one thousand species of plants ; before this only 

 about three hundred species of Australian plants were known. 

 Banks and Solander collected their specimens at Botany Bay, 

 Bustard Bay, Cape Grafton, Endeavour River, Point Hillock, 

 and Thirsty Sound. 



Of these early botanic explorers Banks' na-me is attached 

 ■ to the Australian honeysuckles — the Jhmksids of Linnieus, a 

 genus of Proteace*; Spundias Solandri, Benth., and a genus, 

 Solandra, are named after Dr. Solander, none of which, how- 

 ever, have been met with in Australia. The name of England's 

 greatest navigator is associated usually with the New Caledonian 

 pine, Araucaria Cookii, R. Br., although Forster's earlier specific 

 name, Dombeya columnaris, is adopted by many botanists. 



1778. — Capt. Cook on his second voyage was accompanied 

 by the botanists J. R. Forster and his son George who toucbed at 

 Adventure Bay, Tasmania, but did not collect a large number 

 of Australian specimens. The genus Furstem, Linn., of the 

 Order Stylidete, commemorates their work. 



1777. — On Capt. Cook's third voyage, David Nelson and the 

 surgeon ol the ship " Resolution," William Anderson, collected 

 the botanic specimens, and from a note of this latter gentleman 

 we find that the leaves of LepUi^jicnmun .scojiariHiii were used as a 

 substitute for Chinese tea : he mistook the shrub for a Philadel- 

 phiis, a genus of Saxifragese. He says that he drank the infusion 

 and found it of pleasant taste and smell. It may here be 

 pointed out that the word should be spelt '' tea " and not " ti " 

 so persistently used by newspaper writers ; this latter word is 

 the Maori name for Cordyline. a genus of Liliaceaj. The plants 

 which bear the names of these botanists are — Xclsoriia, R. Br., 

 a genus of Acauthaceae, and Andcrsunia, R. Br., a genus of 

 Epacride^e. This latter is also partly dedicated to Alex. Ander- 

 son, a director of the Botanic Garden at St. Vincent. 



