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quefting the profefTor to examine it, and affix the 

 names to the plants of this fuperb colledlion. Its 

 great value, as being coUedled by fo eminent a 

 man, induced our author to examine the whole ' 

 with great attention ; and he was thereby enabled 

 to form many new genera^ and fettle many doubt- 

 ful fpecies. He publiflied the refult of his la- 

 bour under the title of Flora Zeylanica, Jijlens 

 Plant as indie as Zeylona Inful^e, qua olim 1670—1677 

 le^a fuere^ a Paulo Hermanno Profejfore Botan. Ley^ 

 denji ; demum pofi 70 annos ah A. Gmthero orbi 

 reddit^. Holm. 1747, 8% 'pp. 254, tab. 4. 



This work is yet of ufe as a pnax of thefe 

 plants, and as a Linnaan catalogue of Burman's 

 'Thefaurus Zeylanicusj publiflied in 1738, and illuf- 

 trated with the figures of upwards of 200 of thefe 

 plants. Many of the rare fpecies are defcribed, 

 and a very copious number of fynonyms added 

 to feveral of the Eaft Indian plants. The Her- 

 barium confided of about 660 plants, of which 

 the true places in the fydem are affigned to up- 

 wards of 40O5 and the remainder were too im- 

 perfe(5b to admit of diftin6tion. This volume is 

 rendered valuable by a concife hiftory of the pro- 

 grefs of botany, from the reftoration of learning 

 in the i6th century; a natural hiftory of the 

 ifland, and its general produce ; the life of Dr.. 

 Hennan\ a fhort account of J. Uartog^ who was 

 fent by Dr. Sherard to make collections in this 

 ifland and' of Bur man'' s "Thefaurus Zeylanicus., 

 LiNN^us authenticates this Herbarium to have 

 been Herman's^ by ftiewing that the numbers, and! 



