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T. H. Goodspeed and his large contingent of assistants collected in Peru, 

 Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina in their search for living and exsiccatae material 

 of the genus Nkotiana. They assembled a total of 13,673 collection numbers, 

 the first set of which is at Berkeley. In 1940 Erik Asplund made large col- 

 lections, the first set of which is deposited at Stockholm. 



Dr. Ramon Ferreyra, Professor of Systematic Botany and Plant Geography 

 at the University of San Marcos and Curator at the Museo de Historia Nat- 

 ural, has kindly supplied me with detailed information concerning plant ex- 

 ploration in Peru subsequent to the account of Weberbauer. Extracts from his 

 notes are as follows: 



Christopher Sandeman, June-September, 1938, made collections in the 

 coastal and Andean regions ; his specimens, mostly in small series, are at Kew. 

 F. Pennell and R. Ferreyra explored in central and northern Peru during 1948 

 chiefly for Scrophulariaceae, Polygalaceae, and Compositae; in 1948 F. R. 

 Fosberg collected Rubiaceae in central and northern Peru; his material is 

 stored at Chicago. In 1948 C. Rick spent several months in Peru collecting 

 chiefly Lycopersicon. In 1952 P. Hutchinson and R. Ferreyra made collections 

 in central Peru for the University of California. In 1953 P. Hjertig and E. 

 Petersen of the faculty of Agronomy at Tucuman made exploration in central 

 and southern Peru and Bolivia, with especial interest in Solanum. In 1954 

 E. E. Smith of the Bureau of Plant Introduction, Beltsville, Maryland, made 

 general collections of economic plants in central and southern Peru and in 

 Bolivia. W. Rauh and F. Monheim of Heidelberg University made collections 

 in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes. Large parts of this collection are being 

 studied at New York. Lincoln Constance in 1954 collected for several months 

 in the cordillera of Chile and central Peru (Departments of Lima and Junin). 

 In 1955 A. Krapovickas and R. Ferreyra collected in central Peru. E. Cerrate, 

 assistant in botany at the University of San Marcos, has since 1950 explored 

 chiefly in the province of Bolognesi, collecting approximately 2500 field num- 

 bers. Professor O. Tovar of the University of San Marcos since 1950 has 

 botanized in the Department of Huancavelica, where he has acquired some 

 3000 numbers. Ferreyra has collected widely in Peru since 1946 and has as- 

 sembled a large collection of more than 12,000 numbers yielding more than 

 30,000 specimens. In addition, he has collected in Argentina, Chile, and the 

 United States. He has published more than thirty papers, chiefly on the flora 

 of Peru, dealing especially with the genera Onocerus, Monnina, and Chaetan- 

 thera. He has inscribed a new genus of the Mutisieae, Weberbauerella (ined.), 

 to the great student of Peruvian botany. 



Bolivia. Martin Cardenas, Director, Facultad de Ciencias, Cochabamba, 

 has for many years been the outstanding student of the flora of Bolivia. The 

 more prominent of the field botanists of the nineteenth century who worked 

 in the highly diversified and rich flora of Bolivia were H. A. Weddell (1845- 

 1847, 1851), whose original set is at Paris; G. Mandon (1863-1883), whose 



