« Linnaeus himself in his Protea parviflora, and afterwards 
<< more expressly by Lamarck in P. pinifolia, was first ascer- 
« tained in Auzax and the present genus (as Iam informed 
“by Mr. Dryander) by our countryman Masson, during his 
« last residence at the Cape of Good Hope, and is beauti- 
« fully illustrated by that eminent botanical painter, Mr. 
« Francis Bauer, in his unpublished drawings preserved in the 
<¢ Banksian collection. Numerous observations on the same 
« subject have also more recently been made by Dr. Rox- 
«burgh and Mr. Niven, who have bestowed much pains in 
“ascertaining its limits, of which, as far as regards the 
“ african part of the family, Mr. Salisbury has given an ac- 
« curate account in his essay on this natural order. The 
«© dissertation of Thunberg, who was wholly unacquainted 
“ with this separation of the fertile and the unfertile fowers 
“in these plants, is necessarily imperfect, and he has in 
«“ several cases described the fertile and unfertile flowered 
«“ plants as_distinct species; and thus also Bergius has 
founded his genus Auax on the sterile flowered plant of a 
« species, whose fertile flowered plant he had _ previously 
< published as a LeucapEnpron. On the other hand, Jus- 
« sieu, deceived by the resemblance in inflorescence, be- 
“ tween Brabesum and the spiked species of Prorea, has 
“ erroneously suspected these to.be monoicous, while he has 
“ totally overlooked the truly dioicous nature of the present 
“ genus.” 
A sketch of the whole plant diminished, is added in the 
annexed plate. 
