MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 31 
Approximate 
date of Collector Country 
collection 
1880. 55 as PMSOURAU ie5 Seca cat oe 4 Brazil 
Lo retire DIBMUNGO Cet a an $8 Brazil 
183082 PDE oes ae oe a es Australia, Mauritius, 
Martinique and South Africa 
cect Mcp opeahig RE g sO E ESHER Rik oe rar South Africa 
1829-1850....Ecklon and Zeyher........ South Africa 
SOEs Cat va ie WIDE ESE OS Cie ca Surinam 
ee Schiede and Deppe......... Mexico 
2 re Soa a ME ee ee Chili 
Bee eos". os Wiese es hice age Egypt 
ee COMIN Sis snes en ete Philippine Islands 
peepee ..<; Sehimper «0.524, 0aseeias Arabia and Abyssinia 
wigs nd Eee Hostmann and Kappler. ...Surinam 
BOOS S55 60 e% Robert Fortune... 2.22.65. China 
To American students the collections of Thaddeus 
Haenke, a Bohemian naturalist, who made a scientific ex- 
pedition from Europe to the west coast of South America, 
stopping in Peru and Mexico, thence northward to Cali- 
fornia, and then to the Philippine Islands, where a pro- 
longed stay was made, is of Sake oe interest. The plants 
secured by Haenke in the Philippines constitute one of the 
first large collections from the archipelago; they were 
studied by Presl1, also a Bohemian botanist, and, many of 
them being new to science, were described and illustrated in 
a large two-volume folio work which was published in 
Prague, where the first set of these plants was deposited. 
Next to the series at Prague the set preserved in the Bern- 
hardi herbarium is probably the most complete in existence. 
A later and considerably larger collection of plants from the 
Philippine Islands is one made by Cuming in about 1835. 
The total number of specimens secured by Cuming is said 
to have been upwards of 130,000. Of these there is a 
splendid series in the Bernhardi herbarrum, and a partial 
list of them was published by Vidal? in 1885. Recent in- 
vestigations on the vegetation and the economic resources 
of the Philippine Islands have necessitated repeated refer- 
ence to these two collections, and their value for the pur- 
poses of comparative study cannot well be overestimated. 
The botanical work of some of the early missionaries is 
by no means a negligible quantity. One of the men of this 
group who made a worthy contribution to our knowledge of 
the flora of the orient was Rottler®, a missionary to India 
1 Prest, C. B. Reliquiae Haenkeanae. 2 vols. folio. Prague. 1825-35. 
2Vipat y SoveR. Phanerogamae Cumingianae Philippinarum. 8vo. 
pp. 217. Manila. 1885. 
8 RortLer. Botanische Bemerkungen auf der hin- und riickreise von 
Trankenbar nach Madras mit Anmerkungen von Professor C. L. Willde- 
now. Gesell. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4: 180-224. 1803. 
