HISTORY OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FLORA OF SURINAM. g 



The quarto volume contains 234 pages with 65 plates. Miquel's deter- 

 minations are occasionally somewhat inaccurate. In this respect the amateur 

 Splitgerber compares favourably with the professional botanist Miquel. 

 Already in' Linnaea XXI (1848) the determination of Kegel's plants ins 

 published by various botanists. So C. Miiller gives the mosses, G. Kunze 

 the ferns, Schultz bip. the Compositae, Meissner the Leguminosae, Nees 

 ab Esenbeck the Acanthaceae and Lauraceae, Schauer the Verbenaceae 

 and Myrtaceae, Grisebach a great part of the Monocotyledons, the remaining 

 families being divided between Miquel and Garcke. The Orchids were not 

 published until 1877 in Linnaea XLI by Reichenbach fil. 



Kegel's herbarium is in the Botanical Institute at Gottingen in an 

 excellent condition. Mettenius obtained the ferns which are now in the 

 Kgl. Botanisches Museum at Berlin. Also the Orchids are wanting at 

 Gottingen and are probably in Reichenbach's herbarium. 



As was already mentioned, Splitgerber determined the greater part of 

 his herbarium himself. His death prevented the complete publication by 

 himself and not until 1848 de Vriese in the first volume of the Nederlandsch 

 Kruidkundig Archief enumerated the remaining families, giving their numbers 

 and the places were they were found. At the same time de Vriese 

 distributed the duplicates of Splitgerber's herbarium; so Vienna possesses 

 a pretty complete collection of duplicates. The principal collection is at Leyden, 

 where however some unica are wanting. So e. g. I have not succeeded in 

 finding all the Voyria's published by Splitgerber. Also some of the ferns 

 are lacking and the Orchids are even very incomplete, when compared 

 with the article on them by Reichenbach fil. in Ned. Kruidkundig Archief IV 

 (1859). These will probably be found in Reichenbach's herbarium. 



Wullschlagel's Surinamian collection is with the original labels in the 

 Martius herbarium at Brussels. The plants have not been published separately, 

 but the greater part has been dealt with in the various volumes of the 

 Flora Brasiliensis. Duplicates are in the Grisebach herbarium at Gottingen. 



Kappler's collection of 1861, brought together during his being a member 

 of the French-Dutch committee for the determination of the frontiers, has 

 been on the market. He himself says on page 384 of his autobiography : 



"The collection of plants I divided with the help of a French botanist 

 into two series; carefully labelled and excellently packed up, I sent them 

 to the leader of the expedition with the request to offer them in my name 

 to the herbaria of the universities of Utrecht and Leyden. I never received 

 a word of thanks or even acknowledgement of their arrival. The remaining 

 plants became known through the care of the late Dr. Hohenacker. Among 

 them are many rare and some new species, which have been described in 

 botanical publications." 



The collection that was sent to Holland I found among the indeter- 

 minata in the State herbarium at Leyden. They were there only provided 

 with a number and with loose labels, bearing the inscription: legit Kappler 



