region during the spring and early summer of 1839, and 
Liebmann followed in 1842. 
These early European collectors used the name Cfi- 
nantla freely in their field notes, and the name has 
appeared in their own taxonomic papers, as well as in later 
monographs and in biographies and itineraries of the ex- 
plorers. Since the Galeotti and Liebmann collections are 
represented by a number of specimens in North American 
herbaria and since their collections seem to have been 
more extensive and important that those of Hartweg, the 
following discussion and examples of the use of the name 
Chinantla are based on the work of these two men. 
In several publications (1, 6, 14, 16, 18, 22), general 
discussions of the itineraries of Galeotti and Liebmann 
in Mexico have appeared. In most of these, Chinantla is 
used to refer to a district, but Alston (1) has stated that 
Liebmann collected in **... Chinantla, a village on the 
slopes of Mt. Sempoaltepec ...’’. A clear discussion is 
found in Oersted’s introduction to Liebmann’s Chénes 
del’ Amérique tropicale (22) and in Liebmann’s Meaicos 
Bregner ... (18). The former stated that: ‘“‘Dans la 
contrée montagneuse peu connue et peu habitée de Chi- 
nantla, Liebmann fit un riche moisson de plantes nou- 
velles... 7’; the latter briefly reported that Liebmann 
had travelled through ‘‘det saakaldte Sierra de Oajaca 
med Indbefiittelse af Districterne Ixtlin, Chuapam, 
Villa alta og Chinantla...”’ 
A study of the actual collection-data of these two ex- 
plorers is more instructive. From an examination of 
Galeotti and Liebmann collections and from a study of 
the citations in numerous taxonomic publications (17, 
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23), it has been possible to work out 
the itineraries of these collectors in northeastern Oaxaca 
(still to be published) and to ascertain the exact region 
which they meant to designate by the word Chinantla. 
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