60 CUMING’S PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 
the number. The writing is the same as ‘la of the number- 
tickets which were distributed with the plan Sir J. D. Hooker 
tells me he believes the writing on these Een tickets to be that 
of Cuming’s daughter, not of ang himself, as I at first suspected. 
These four tickets are as follows : 
ens luzonica F. Villar.—‘ 1479, Island of Mindoro, Aug., | 
838.” 
yes emna nauseosa seers —‘‘ 698, Island of Corrigedor, Bay of 
a, Sept., 1839.” 
Potumogeton lucens L.—‘*1881, Prov. of Nueva Eeija, July, 
1889.” 
Freycinetia luzonensis Presl.—* 1455, Prov. of South Camarines, 
Feb., March, 1839.” 
According to the afore-named list the localities should be 
respectively—1 and 4, Prov. Batangas; 2, unlocalised; and 3, 
Proy. Albay. These provinces are districts of the Island of Luzon. 
if to ee the — — this list cannot be taken as correct, 
we note that the localities on these original tickets are scarcely 
of determinations, with localities (Hook. J urn. Bot. iii. 392). 
A possible explanation of this Saatuioa may be that “the — 
records for the ferns were published at once, from some sou 
which, not being then recorded in the case of the flowering- olan, 
doe 
(Cleroen dron =.) 1689 (Bragantia sp.), and 1724 (Aporosa miecro- 
calyx Hassk.) are cited in the list as from the Island of Samar; 
and of the latter, ‘Island of Leyte.” Again, several orchids on the 
sheets are recorded from the “ Island of Bohol”: ‘but no locality for 
any orchid occurs in the list. The discrepancy I cannot explain, 
except as above. 
_ Enough has been said to show that the locality-lists, as given 
in the above work, must be taken cum grano salis, t gh not from 
excellent service to Philippine Botany, both in the investi -— or 
the Flora in the publication of the results. R. A. Roure 
New Booxs.—C. D. Harz, < dandy isthechaitliche Samenkunde’ 
(Berlin, Parey : 2 vols., pp. ix. 1362, 30 m.). — F. Huzprr, ‘ Die 
Formen der Bakterien * (Wi iesbaden, Kriedel : 
24 cuts). — J. Vi” Guide 
Cauterets’ (Pau, Cazaux: 8vo, 
‘Studies of Plant Life — 
pp- ili. ix. 288, tt. 1X.). — 
Practical 
ROOKSHANK, 
ie 80. Bacteriology * ‘ictaeas Lewis : mt pp. xxii, 249, 
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