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greater part of the plants brought from Shark's Bay by the celebrated 

 navigator Dampier, and have seen a fe wadditional species from that 

 and other parts of the West Coast of New Holland, collected in the 

 voyage of captain Baudin. 



The additional species obtained from all these collections are upwards 

 of 300; my materials, therefore, for the commencement of a Flora of 

 Terra Australis amount to about 4200 species; a small number certainly 

 for a country nearly equal in size to the whole of Europe, but not in- 

 considerable for the detached portions of its shores hitherto examined'. 



Unfortunately in the Prodromus Brown did not state the origin of 

 his material in a precise manner but merely indicated it rather vaguely 

 by the letters D, J, M, O andT (see maps 1, 2) as explained in his preface: 



B denotes specimens collected by Banks and Solander, i. e. on the coasts of 



New South Wales and Queensland between Botany Bay and Possession 



Island. 

 D denotes Insula Van Diemen, i. e. Tasmania, where Brown collected in 



1804 around George Town and Hobart (see p. xvi). 

 J denotes Port Jackson, the area from Sydney north to Newcastle, New 



South Wales, including the Hunter Range, and branches of the River 



Hunter. 

 M denotes Ora Meridionalis, i. e. the south coast from Cape Leeuwin, West- 



ern Australia to the islands of Bass Strait and Wilson's Promontory, 



Victoria. 

 O denotes Ora Occidentalis, i. e. Western Australia from Cape Leeuwin 



north to the Dampier Archipelago, altough the only specimens seen by 



Brown from this vast coastline were Dampier's (see above) and a few 



collected on Baudin's expedition. 

 T denotes Littus intra Tropicum, i. e. the coast of Queensland and the North- 



ern Territory westward to Arnhem Bay. 



These letters refer to such wide tracts, however, that, as emphasized 

 by Nancy T. Burbidge (1956), they are useless for the determination 

 of type localities. To ascertain these it is necessary to consult Brown's 

 original specimens and manuscripts in the Department of Botany, Bri- 

 tish Museum (Natural History), London. Even so, difficulties may arise, 

 as pointed out by Burbidge (1956), from whose paper, the result of 

 critical study in 1953 and 1954 of this material, the following is quoted 

 here by her kind consent: 



'During his period as naturalist with Matthew Flinders, in the 

 Investigator, Brown found it necessary to employ code names for loca- 



