SOLANDER'S MANUSCRIPT FLORULA INDUE OCCIDENTALS AND SWARTZ'S PRODROMUS

Summary From late 1786 to mid‐1787 Swartz worked at the Banksian Museum preparing his Prodromus (1788). Banks permitted him access to Solander's manuscripts, including a Florula Indiae Occidentalis , as well as the specimens and literature underlying it. Many of Swartz's subsequently published names of new species (and genera) have the same names used in the Florula. More than 10% of the names in Swartz's Prodromus are asterisked, meaning that they are based on materials (specimens and/or references) found in Banks' collections and appear in Solander's Florula. The unpublished Florula , aside from its contribution to Swartz's publications, is interesting because it cites collectors and localities, providing an insight into early records.