168 . COMMENTARY ON THE PLANTS IN 
Not satisfied with the execution of this work*, Piso revised his own 
as well as Marcgrav’s materials, and, adding the six books of Jacob 
Bontius’s Historia naturalis et medica Indie orientalis, published the 
whole in 1658, also from Elzevir's press, under the title: Guil. Pisonis 
de Indie utriusque re naturali et medica, libri quatuordecim, fol. 
Maregrav's botanical labours do not appear separately in this work, but 
are interwoven with Piso’s. The first book treats of the climate; the 
second of the diseases; the third of the animals: the fourth of the 
plants, and the fifth of the poisons and antidotes. Then follows of 
Maregrav only his Tractatus topographicus et meteorologicus Brasilia, 
cum observatione eclipsis solaris, and his Commentarius de Brasiliensium 
85 Phaseolus ? 112 Digitaria . 142 Cardiospermum 
86 Ditto 113 Corallina 143 Phaseolus 
87 Anacardium occidentale 114 Leptochloa . 144 Croton 
89 Inga | 115 Cecropia 145. Gomphrena 
90 Glycine 116 Graminea 146 Cephaelis 
91 Phaseolus 117 Cassia , 147 Cardiospermum 
92 Rhynchospora 118 Ditto 148 Talinum 
93 Desmodium 120 Kyllingia 149 Croton 
95 Mimosa 121 Tephrosia 150 Xyris . 
96 Ditto 122 Philodendron 151 Convolvulus 
97 Cassia - 123 Convolvulus 152 Elythraria 
98 inflor. Palms 124 Stemodia ? 153 
99 Mimosa 125 Composita 184 Clitoria 
100 Melastoma 127 Hirtella 155 Rivina 
E 101 Paullinia 129 Urena 156 fol. Desmodii 
102 Sponia 130 Tribulus . 157 Visnea 
103 Desmodium 131 Clitoria 158 Mimosa 
104 Portulaca pilosa 132 Malvacea 159 Polygonum 
105 Andropogon 133 Borreria 160 Ricinus 
106 Cyperus 134 Ditto 162 Helianthus 
107 Leptochloa 135 Lygodium 163 Ardisia? 
108 Panicum 137 Sida 164 Tonidium 
109 Sporobolus 138 Rubiacea 165 Jatropha Curcas 
110 Leptochloa 139 Crotalaria . 166 Smilax 
111 Dichromena 141 Corchorus 170 Elythraria.” 
To the above details in Professor Liebmann's letter I may add that he tells me, 
what I had utterly forgotten, that there are two loose leaves in the volume in question, 
containing my own juvenile (and no doubt most miserable) attempt to determine the 
plants in the herbarium. 
My friend Mr. Bennett, the Secretary of the Linnean Society, has pointed out to 
PA me two specimens of Brazilian plants, in the 240th volume of Sir Hans Sloane's Her- 
barium at the British Museum, inscribed in his own handwriting “ Mangle. Dr. 
= Hawley, Brazil, 169-;” and “Inga, Brazil" In the list prefixed to the volume, 
“ wn the name of the illustrious astronomer, who collected these specimens, is correctly 
5 spelt Halley.—N. W. : 
* In the preface to the second book he pronounces the Historia Naturalis Brasilia . 
“ nimis preecipitanter per meam a preelo absentiam in lucem protrusa."' 
