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Collection at the British Museum. Father Camell was a Jesuit 

 who for some time resided in the island of Luzon. A number of 

 Philippine plants were collected by Nee during the Malaspina 

 Expedition, and these were described by Cavanilles in his 

 1 Icones,' published between 1791 and 1801. In 1837 Blanco's 

 'Flora de Filipinas ' was published, an octavo volume of 887 

 pages. This work was published under peculiar circumstances : 

 away from Europe, and without opportunities of consulting 

 European Herbaria, Blanco had to rely solely upon books for his 

 determinations, and of these he had only a limited number. His 

 library consisted principally of some Linnaean works, Aublet's 

 1 Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane francoise,' and some of the 

 early volumes of De Candolle's ' Prodromus.' The geographical 

 distribution of plants does not appear to have been taken much 

 into account, for the bulk of the species were made to fit existing 

 descriptions, some of them belonging to American plants. The 

 work is written in Spanish, and, as no specimens were preserved, 

 great uncertainty has been felt respecting them ; but as the 

 native names are given, and many of the plants are from a 

 limited area round Manila, it will yet be possible to identify 

 nearly the whole of them. Many, indeed, are already identified, 

 thanks to the authors of the new edition of the ' Flora de Fili- 

 pinas,' and to Don Sebastian Vidal, who has taken great pains to 

 obtain specimens from the original localities for the purpose of 

 identification. A second edition appeared in 1845, after Blanco's 

 death, but from his MSS. Several corrections were made, but it 

 is noteworthy that some species described as new in the first 

 edition are here referred to Linnaean names, and not always 

 correctly. A number of Philippine plants, collected by Hsenke, 

 were described by Presl in his ' Beliquiae Hsenkeana?,' published in 

 1830; and also a number from Cuming's collection by the same 

 author, in his ' Epimeliae Botanicae,' published in 1849. In 1843 

 the ' Plantae Meyenianae ' was published, as a supplement to the 

 nineteenth volume of the ' Novorum Actorum Acadeinias Caesareae 

 Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum.' The Orders were 

 worked up by various authors, and a number of Philippine species 

 described. Meyen was for a month in the islands during the 

 rainy season, and his plants are chiefly from Jala- Jala (pronounced 

 Hala-hala), a promontory running into the large lake known as 

 Laguna Bay, near Manila. In 1851 a small work of 116 pages 

 was published by Father Llanos, entitled ' Fragmentos de algunns 



