292 THE .TOUEXAL OF BOTAXT 



Furthermore, the substitution of the 1GS6 title for that of 1G78 

 (beside the absurdity of repeating the contents : " De varii generis 

 Arboribus et Fruticibus Sihquosis " in place of "De Arboribus ") is 

 a slight upon the first editor, whose name appears only on the original 

 title-page of Pars i. : " Notis adauxit, & commentariis illustravit 

 Arnoldus Syen " — though he is eulogized by his successor Jan Com- 

 melin, in the preface to the second volume. Arnoldus Syen (16-10- 

 1678) was professor of medicine and botany at Leyden, but appears 

 to have left little else in the way of botanical work save one short 

 paper " De Herba Fumana " in Acta Hofniensia, iii. 103-105 

 (1675). His premature death occurred in the very year of the issue 

 of the first volume of the Horfus Mahtbaricus, which might well be 

 his chief memorial. Just how much credit is due to each of the 

 editors and collaborators cannot be ascertained, but besides information 

 given in the various prefaces of the work itself, there are considerable 

 accounts of it in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, xiii. 100-109 

 (Mar. 10, 1682,3); Acta Eruditoruin, 1618, 159-161 (Apr. 1681); 

 and by Bertuch in Fortsetz. AUg. Teut. Gart. Mag. iii. 23-26 (1818), 

 written as an introduction to Dennstedt's Schllissel ziim Horfus 

 MaJaharicus. 



Bertuch indeed raises the question of earlier dates for certain 

 volumes, citing the preface, dated December 1696, of Caspar Com- 

 melin's Flora Ilalaharica : " Prodierunt ante aliquot annos duodecim 

 vasti istius operis Horti Malaharici titulo insigniti tomi." Commelin, 

 moreover, definitely refers to every plate in all twelve volumes of the 

 Kortus Malaharicus, although according to its imprint Pars :sii, 

 was not published until 1703. While it has been impossible to find 

 any notice of issue, or locate any copy of earlier date, one may infer 

 that inasmuch as Pars xi. was issued in 1692, the material for the 

 remaining volume was all ready and even in print for some time 

 previous "to the issue of the title-page. Again, Haller (Bibl. Bot. i. 

 588, 1771) gives 1676 as date of the first volume, which -is not 

 followed by other bibliographers except Sprengel (Hist. Kei Herb. ii. 

 83, 1808) ; nevertheless the prefaces to this A^olmne, which are all 

 dated April 20, 1675, offer a reasonable presumption that printing 

 must have begun long before 1678. With such evidences of diversity 

 as have been presented, it seems not unlikely that copies or notices of 

 publication may be in existence which would support these intima- 

 tions of earlier elates, and it Avould be most helpful if anyone having 

 such information would make it public. 



MAE.TOEIE F. WaEXEE, 



Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 



LXXIX A. Lehmanx's PuGiLLrs I. 



Ii^ my notes on Lehmann's Pugilli (p. 108) much of what was 

 said reo-arding the first of these requires correction. The statement, 

 based on inadequate information, that no copy of the original issue 

 existed at Kew proves to be inaccurate ; and a consultation of this 

 necessitates a revision of the third paragraph of my paper. The 

 title-page of the Kew copy, which was presented to Bentham by 

 Lehmann and bears an autograph inscription, runs : 



