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doubtedly intended himself to publish a full illustrated account of the 

 plants collected on the voyage but he never effected this. Nevertheless 

 he liberally made his material available to interested persons who 

 then published it piecemeal and incompletely, which was, how- 

 ever, better than its not being published at all. For example, descrip- 

 tions of some of Banks and Solander's Australian plants were included 

 in the younger Linnaeus's Supplementum Plantarum (1781) and many 

 in Joseph Gaertner's De Fructibus et Seminibus (2 vols., 1788 — 92). 

 The major study of their material was, however, made by Robert 

 Brown, who indicated in his Prodromus by the letters 'B. v. s.' those 

 species based on specimens gathered by Banks and Solander. Many 

 of these had been drawn on the voyage by Parkinson. Their precise 

 type-localities and details supplementing Brown's diagnoses can be 

 ascertained from the plates and text reproducing Parkinson's illustra- 

 tions and Solander's descriptions published in the lllustrations of 

 Australian Plants collected in 1770 (cf. Britten, 1905). Thus the type- 

 locality of Ipomoea congesta R. Br., simply recorded by Brown as 

 '(T.) B. v. s.', is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, Queensland (cf. 

 Illust. Austral. Pl. 65, t. 213). 



The establishment of a British penal settlement at Port Jackson in 

 1788 under Governor Philipp led to the introduction of many of its 

 plants into European gardens and their illustration here and there 

 in botanical works as well as the sending to England of further speci- 

 mens and drawings. On such a collection made by John White, Sur- 

 geon-General to the settlement at Port Jackson, New South Wales, 

 James Edward Smith based his Specimen of the Botany of New Holland 

 (1793 — 95), tt. 1 — 4. In this work Smith remarked (p. 9, under t. 3, Cera- 

 topetalum gummiferum) that 'when a botanist first enters on the in- 

 vestigation of so remote a country as New Holland, he finds himself as 

 it were in a new world. He can scarcely meet with any certain fixed 

 points from whence to draw his analogies; and even those that appear 

 most promising, are frequently in danger of misleading, instead of in- 

 forming him. Whole tribes of plants, which at first sight seem familiar 

 to his acquaintaince, as occupying links in Nature's chain, on which 

 he has been accustomed to depend, prove, on a nearer examination, 

 total strangers, with other configurations, other oeconomy, and other 

 qualities; not only all the species that present themselves are new, 

 but most of the genera, and even natural orders. The plant before us 

 justifies the above remarks. Its botanical characters are so new, we 



