APPENDIX, 
33S 
No. III. 
General Remarks, geographical and, systematical, on the Botany of Terra 
Australis. By Robert Brown, F. R. S. Acad. Reg. Scient. Berolin. 
Corresp., Naturalist to the voyage. 
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I h e coasts of the great South Land commonly called New Holland 
have been discovered partly by Dutch and partly by English navigators. 
Captain Flinders, considering it therefore unjust towards the English to 
retain a name for the whole country which implies its discovery to have 
been made by the Dutch alone, has thought proper to recur to its original 
name Terra Australis ; under which he includes the small islands adjacent 
to various parts of its coasts, and the more considerable souther# island 
called Van Diemen’s Land. 
In this extended sense I shall use Terra Australis in the following 
observations, hut when treating of the principal Land separately, shall con- 
tinue to employ its generally received name New Holland : that I may be 
more readily understood by botanists, for whom these observations are in- 
tended, and preserve consistency with the title of a work, part of which I 
have already published on the plants of that country. 
In the following pages I have endeavoured to collect such general, 
and at the same time strictly botanical, observations on the vegetation of 
Terra Australis, as our very limited knowledge of this vast country appears 
already to afford. To these observations are added descriptions of a few 
remarkable plants, which have been selected for publication, from the ex- 
tensive and invaluable collection of drawings made by Mr. Ferdinand 
Bauer in New Holland, chiefly during the voyage of the Investigator. 
The materials for the present essay were acquired principally in 
the same voyage, from captain Flinders’s account of which a general 
notion of the opportunities afforded for observation may be gathered. 
It seems necessary, however, to present in one view the circumstance# 
