Note on the South African Proteacece. 
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in 1841. In 1843 Dr. Ernst Meyer edited Drege's " Zwei Pflanzen- 
geographische, which while merely an enumeration of the plants collected 
by Dr^ge, is of importance on account of the localities, altitudes, and 
months of flowering of the Proteaceae which are scattered throughout the 
work. Almost simultaneous with this publication was a list of the Pro- 
teaceae* collected by Zeyer and Ecklon, compiled by the former. Another 
list of those collected by Krauss appeared in 1844, t and was again 
reprinted in 1846. | A new genus, viz., Faurea, was described by Harvey 
in Hooker's "London Journal of Botany," representatives of which have 
since been found to occur in Madagascar. This fact is mentioned as 
Brown was struck by the absence of the Order from the island. The fol- 
lowing year saw another new genus described, viz., Orothommis, by Pappe, 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4357. 
To bring all the scattered information on the Proteaceae together was 
left to a German botanist, Dr. Meisner.§ Meisner followed Brown and 
adopted his genera, he included Harvey's new genus Faurea, but united 
Pappe's Orothamnus with Mimetes, E. Br., though keeping it in a separate 
section. He gave descriptions of 279 species, many of them new. It is 
due principally to the labours of Dr^ge, Ecklon, Zeyher, Ludwig, and 
Krauss, who sent large quantities of material to Europe, that the South 
African members of the Order were so ably dealt with by Meisner, and his 
work remains up to the present the standard one. The second edition 
of Harvey's ''Genera of South African Plants" appeared in 1868; the 
writer has taken Harvey's key as a model in preparing a key to the genera 
for the "Flora Capensis." The same year the Eay Society published 
"The Miscellaneous Botanical Works of Eobert Brown, || among which 
will be found a reprint of Brown's monograph, which originally appeared 
in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society. In 1880 Bentham and 
Hooker published their " Genera Plantarum " with an excellent key and 
generic characters. This was followed in 1889 by an account of the Order 
by Engler.*i An attempt was made by Otto Kuntze to re-establish old 
generic names, but with regard to the South African Proteaceae at least 
the scheme failed, and the names of the genera have now been decided 
upon by the Vienna Congress in 1905. The writer may mention, how- 
ever, that if Protea, E. Br. is to be one of the nomina conservanda in 
preference to Protea, Linn., or Protea, Salisb., then Leucadendron, Berg., 
should be omitted, as Protea, E. Br., is as much Protea, Linn., as Leuca- 
* "Linnea," xx., pp. 204-207. 
t "Flora " (1844), pp. 74-77. 
I Krauss, " Beitrage zur Flora des Cap-und Natallandes," 1846, pp. 138-141. 
§ " D. C. Prodr.," xiv., 1856, pp. 209-482. 
II Vol. ii., pp. 3-192. 
^\ Engler in " Engler and Prantl Pflanzenfamilien," III., i. 
** Otto Kuntze, "Eevisio Generum Plantarum," 1891. 
