BOTAiS'T OF THE PHILTPPIXES 363 



Dissertations and their reissue in the Amoenifates — it may be noted 

 that a set of the originals is in the Department of Botany. 



The work of John Barman in editing the Herbarium and the 

 " Index universalis " (1755) added by him at the end of vol. vii. (the 

 " Auctuarimn ") are described, as well as the "Index alter" which 

 he published later (1769). This latter is stated to be rare : Rouffaer 

 and Muller in their bibliography of Rumphius say that it is " lacking 

 in such libraries as those of Leiden, Upsala, Halle and Munich." 

 Mr. Merrill probably thought it unnecessary to say that this, although 

 it has a separate title-page, was printed by Burman with his Index to 

 the Hortus Malabariciis : the pages are not numbered, bvit the first 

 two, containing the title-page and " prooemium," form part of sheet C 

 of the Index to the Hortus, and the lettering continues with 

 sheet D. If separated from its context, the " Index alter " might 

 well be regarded as an independent publication. The "alter" I 

 think relates to the Index which precedes it, not to that of Herharium 

 Amhoinense to which the word is generally understood to relate. I 

 venture to suggest that the apparent rarity of the " Index alter " may 

 be due to the fact of its association with the Index to the Hortus 

 3I(tlaharicus, which is often hound up with the last volume of 

 the work just named. 



Besides these we have in the Department of Botan}'' two Indexes 

 to the Hortus which I have not seen elsewhere, and of which I find 

 no jHiblished notice. The work, which is stitched into a plain brown 

 paper cover, and of which the provenance is not known, is in folio, 

 and consists of two parts : there is no title, and the only dates are 

 those contained in the preface which occupies tbe first page, and 

 which, in view of the i-arity of the work, may be worth transcribing 

 literally : — 



" REGISTER 



OP IIET 



AMBONS KRUID-BOEK 



TAN 



G. E. RrMPHirs. 



" Dit Krviil-BoeJc, in zes Deelen in Folio, door den Heer JoAXXES 

 Bl'liiMAN, BoTAXrcH Professor te Amsterdam, van den Jaare 17-11. 

 tot 1750. uitgegeeven wierd den 20. Juny 1755. gevolgd door een 

 zevende Deel, bevaltende het Auctuarium of de vermeerdering, Avaar 

 agter een Index-JJniversulis is gevoegd, dan dewyl dit byvoegsel met 

 heb Register zeldzaam gevonden word, het ik nodig g'agt dat Register 

 alhier te laaten herdrukken, en by het zelve te voegen zoo wel de 

 Maleidsche Naamen, als de Naamen in het Species Phtnfarum Caroli 

 Lincei, derde Druk te Weeuen in 17G-1 uitgegeeven, zoo mede de 

 Naamen te vinden in de Flora Indica van den Heer Nicolaas 

 Laurenh Bukman, in 4to. in 17G8. uitgegeeven." 



Although written in the first person, no clue is givan to the 



