IN TIMOB. 497 



VI. — Pkodomus Flok^ Timorensis ; compiled in the Botanical Bepartmenl 

 of the British Museum. 



The flora of Timor is one of great interest, but only very limited 

 herbaria exist of it. In preparing the following sketch of the chief 

 collections made in the island I am greatly indebted for assistance to 

 Mr. H. N. Ridley. 



In 1699-1700 Dampier visited the islands ; the few jjlants he collected 

 there were described by Kay. 



When in 1787, the Bounty, under Captain Bligh, was conveying 

 bread-fruit trees from Otaheite to the West Indies, the crew mutinied, 

 and the captain, together with David Nelson, botanist of the expedi- 

 tion, and nineteen others of the crew were cast adrift in an open boat, 

 near the Friendly Islands. They made their way (3600 miles) to Timor, 

 where Nelson died in 17t9. The plants he collected in the island are 

 in the British Museum. 



In October 1792, Christopher Smith and James Wiles collected a 

 number of plants in Timor, on their way from Otaheite in the ship 

 Providence, under Captain Bligh. They took also from Timor and other 

 Malayan islands various useful plants to introduce together with the 

 bread-fruit trees, into the West Indies. The plants collected in this 

 expedition are also in the British Museum. 



In 1803, EiEDLE, Sautier, and Guichenot, gardeners attached to 

 the expedition of the vessels N'lturaliste and Geographe, under Captain 

 Baudin, visited the island. The expedition started from France in 

 I80I, and reached Timor in 1803. The plants were described by De 

 Caisne in the Nouuelles Annates du Museum d'Histoire Katurelle, and are 

 preserved in the Herbarium Uolessert and in the Paris, British, and Kew 

 Museums. 



In April of the same year Eobekt Brown stopped at the island for a 

 short time on his return from the Iter Australiense. He remained in 

 the neighbourhood of Coupang, West Timor, and made a collection of 

 considerable extent, containing many plants of extreme interest. These, 

 together with a manuscript list of their native names, are in the her- 

 barium of the British Museum, and a set is also in the Vienna herbarium 

 to which tlysy were presented by Ferdinand Bauer, the companion of 

 Robert Brown in his travels. 



In the end of 1818, Gaudichatjd visited Timor in the voyage of the 

 Uranie, and in the ' Voyage de TUranie,' chapter viii., gives an account 

 of the island and its products. 



In 1818-1819, Captain King visited the island with Allan Cunning- 

 ham, who made a small but most interesting collection of plants, which, 

 with the manuscript account of his travels, are preserted in the British 

 Museum. 



In 1822, Eeinwardt returned to Europe with his collections, which 

 are in the Leyden Museum. 



In September 1825, Captain Duperrey in the voyage of the Coguille 

 visited Coupang in West Timor. 



In 1828, Zippel went in the expedition under Dr. Maklot in the Triton 

 and Iris, to the islands, and collected a number of plants, which are 

 preserved in the Herbarium Delessert, Paris. 



In 1831, J. B. Spakoghe, the Dutch Resident, made explorations in the 

 west of the island, and sent his collections to Holland. The plants were 

 published in Hooker's ' Companion to the Botanical Miscellany,' vol. i., 

 and ' Linnjea,' vol. xv. 



