SiS 
SANTISIMA TRINIDAD 
JarpiIn BoTANIco 
Director: Juan B. Jiminez (1936). Santisima Trinidad is a 
small town about ten kilometers south of Asuncién, along the 
Paraguay River. The botanist at the Garden is Teodoro Rojas 
(1938). 
Publication: Revista del Jardin Botanico y Museo de Historia 
Natural. Affiliated with the national university of Paraguay. 
Peru 
LIMA 
Jarpin BoTtANico DE LA FACULDAD DE CIENCIAS 
Philippine Islands 
MANILA 
Tue First anp Now Extinct Botanic GARDEN 
Established: Before 1787(?). 
Note: E. D. Merrill (Philippine Jour. Sci. 7: 363-369. Dec. 
1912) gives evidence that there was a botanic garden in existence 
in the city of Manila at the time of the arrival of the Malaspina 
Expedition (left Cadiz, Spain, July 30, 1789; arrived in Manila 
March 27, 1792). Antonio Pineda was the naturalist of this ex- 
pedition and died in June, 1792. James Britten (Biographical 
Notes XXX.—L. A. Deschamps and F. Noronha Jour. Bot. 41: 
282-285. 1903) states that the Spaniards erected a monument 
to their countryman, Dr. Norofia, “in the island of Luzon, near 
Manila, on ground belonging to the royal botanic garden which... 
Dr. Norofia had done everything in his power to bring into order, 
and to stock with many valuable plants.” Since Norofia died in 
1787, this is evidence that the botanic garden existed before the 
Malaspina Expedition arrived. There is little doubt, says Mer- 
rill, that a monument to Pineda was erected in 1792 in what was 
at that time the Botanic Garden, in the same tract with the Norofia 
monument, “located outside the city of Manila, as the city was 
constituted from 1780 to 1800.” As to when and why this gar- 
en was abandoned we have no record. The area was, after the 
