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cinal use of many plants in Simon's book L ) which also gives an 

 extensive list of vernacular and Latin plant names, composed by 

 Dr. N. Anslyn, military physician. That in such a list many inac- 

 curacies in the determinations occur is obvious. 



I also became aequainted with a publication by Hnrt<i<ln -i, 

 who in an appendix gives a survey of the Curagao flora. This 

 appendix contains a very large number of mistakes. 

 It seemed preferable not to quote the plants from the three 

 publications mentioned and to elaborate in this flora only the 

 data from recent collections, found in the Utrecht herbary. 



!) G. J. Simons. Beschrijving van net eiland Curasao. Oostersvolde 1868. 

 2 ) C. Hurtado. Compendlo di botanica elemental. Curazao. Benthencourt e 

 Hyos. 1891. 



