MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 33 
Bernhardi herbarium and all are frequently cited in the 
leading work on the flora of South Africa, begun by Harvey 
and Sonder!, portions of which are still in the course of 
preparation under the direction of Sir David Prain. 
Turning now to South America, we find in the Bernhardi 
herbarium two interesting collections from Surinam, one by 
Weigelt dating about 1827, and one by Hostmann and Kap- 
pler in 1842. How extensive or inclusive the Weigelt col- 
lections were the writer does not know, but at least some of 
them were studied by E: Fries? and several species were de- 
scribed by him in 1831. Presumably very few of these 
plants are in the Bernhardi herbarium. The Hostmann 
and Kappler collection, on the other hand, is relatively com- 
plete, and it was one of the several collections under consid- 
eration by Pulle in writing his Flora of Surinam’. From 
Brazil and Argentina we find several important collections 
in the Bernhardi herbarium, especially those of Martius, 
Sellow, Salzmann (plate 10), Blanchet, Dicuss, and Lusch- 
nath. Their collections were made between 1815 and 1840, 
and the specimens have been critically studied and are cited 
in a monumental work, namely, Martius, Flora of Brazil‘. 
Western South America is perhaps best represented in the 
Bernhardi herbarium by plants collected by Bertero in 1827 
and by Poeppig in 1828. 
Of the early collections of plants made in the West Indies, 
one of the most representative is that of Bertero, which dates 
back to about 1824. We are fortunate in having in the 
Bernhardi herbarium a large series of Bertero’s plants from 
Jamaica, San Domingo, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, St. Jean, 
and Martinique. 
The most noteworthy collection of Mexican plants repre- 
sented in the Bernhardi herbarium is that of Schiede and 
Deppe; it is, moreover, of particular interest because many 
of the tad were new to science and were published in a_ 
series of articles by two foreign botanists, Schlechtendal and 
Chamisso®, in codperation with different specialists. 
The second large private herbarium, and unquestionably 
the most valuable one from a scientific standpoint, to be ac- 
1 Harvey and Sonpver. Flora Capensis. 7 vols. 8vo. Dublin and 
London. 1859-1918. 
* Fries, E. Eclogae fungorum, etc. Linnaea 5: 497-553. 1831. 
* Putte, A. Enumeration of the vascular plants of Syrinam. 8vo. 
pp. 554. Leiden. 1906. 
*Martius, K. F. P. Flora Brasiliensis. 15 vols. folio. Munich. 
1840-1906. 
5 SCHLECHTENDAL and CHaAmisso. Plantarum Mexicanarum a cel. 
viris Schiede et Deppe collectarum. Linnaea 5 : 72-174, 206-236, 554- 
625. 1830; 6 : 22-64, 352-430. 1831. 
