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here given, so that future explorers of this region will have an 
easy time of it, so far as this enumeration goes. 
It should be placed on record as a happy circumstance that a 
North American botanist in this distant and not easily accessible 
South American country should have met with such remarkable 
success as attended the work of Dr. Morong. After a voyage of 
seventy days across the Atlantic, in which not a single storm oc- 
curred, and after a sojourn of two years, much of it spent in a 
remote wilderness inhabited only by roving Indians and wild 
animals, with not a mishap or a single day’s illness to detract from 
his good fortune, the collector circumnavigates the South Ameri- 
can continent, and returns to his own land in perfect health. Of 
the 12,000 or more specimens collected, not one is lost, and within 
three years from the time of his return the whole collection is 
collated, enumerated and published—a fact which is thought to 
be without a parallel. A: Hi 
Enumeration of the Plants collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang with 
descriptions of new Genera and Species. Henry H. Rusby 
(Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 1ii. pp. 67; issued April 27, 1893). 
The collections made by Dr. Rusby in Eastern Bolivia during 
the years 1885 and 1886 proved so rich in novelties, and in species 
hitherto very little known, that he determined, if it should be- 
come possible to supplement his material by additional specimens 
from the same region, and this was the more especially desirable 
from the fact that owing to the conditions under which Dr. Rusby 
made his way through the country, he was able in many instances 
to bring away but a single specimen of a species. Opportunity 
for continuing his work was afforded in 1889 by the engagement 
of Miguel Bang, a Danish gardener of La Paz, to collect material 
in bulk and ship it to New York. The results have more than 
justified the arrangement, for in addition to securing some of the 
best things obtained by Dr. Rusby a very large number of addi- 
tional new species have been obtained, and most of them in suf- 
ficient quantity to make up twenty complete sets, which have 
been placed in the principal herbaria of America and Europe. a 
The present paper enumerates the Polypetala and Gamope- — 
tale up to Lobeliacee of Mr. Bang’s numbers from 1 to 1000, — 
and describes 90 species as new, besides defining a number of 
