sentences:  Specimens of "B. proteoides" were first collected in the 1830s by James Drummond from the vicinity of the Swan River Colony.The species was published under the name "Dryandra proteoides" by John Lindley in his 1840 "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony", where he described it as having "much the look of a Cape Protea".Lindley did not specify his type material, and there is no type at the University of Cambridge Herbarium, where most of Lindley's type specimens are lodged.