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transmitted to Linnaeus by Burman were often described by 
Linnaeus, either under the same binomial Burman used or under 
another name, some in Mantissa Plantarum 1 (1767), one year 
earlier than Burman’s publication, others in Mantissa Planta- 
rum 2 (1771), three years after Burman’s work was published. 
Of the 241 binomials proposed by Burman in his Flora Indica, 
about 20 were also published by Linnaeus, as indicated above, 
while in the case of about 25 others Linnaeus published the same 
species under binomials other than those used by Burman, but 
manifestly based on material received from him. 
The Flora Indica consists of brief descriptions of about 1,305 
species of which about 241 are proposed as new. Burman’s 
work was apparently intended as a descriptive one, covering 
the species from “the Indies” represented in the material 
secured by his father, being for the most part based on collections 
of Piso, Hermann, Garcin, Breyn, Oldenland, Harthog, Kleinhof, 
Outgaerden, and Pryon. The term India is used in a very broad 
sense, covering the Tropics of both hemispheres, although the 
bulk of the material on which the work was based was from 
the Old World. Of the species included more than 500 are 
definitely indicated as from India; that is, mostly from what is 
now known as India proper, although Burman frequently included * 
Javan material under the designation “India.” In some cases 
more definite localities are given, about 20 being indicated as 
from Coromandel, 25 from Malabar, and a few from other 
localities in India such as Surat and Bengal. Very many of the 
species are indicated as occurring in the Tropics of both hemi- 
spheres. This distribution in many cases is based perhaps not so 
much on actual specimens examined from the Tropics of both 
hemispheres as on material from the Old World, the pantropic 
distribution being based on pre-Linnean synonyms cited as 
representing the species ; in many cases these pre-Linnean refer- 
ences manifestly are erroneously placed. From Java about 115 
species are enumerated; from Ceylon about 90; from China 
about 50; from Japan about 15; from Persia about 20. There 
are a few references to Brazilian plants, and fairly numerous 
ones to those of Amboina and the Moluccas, the latter being 
largely under those binomials primarily based on references to 
Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense. Other species are enu- 
merated from Jamaica, from Virginia, from Egypt, from 
Arabia, from Peru, from Canada, from Malacca, from Mexico, 
and a few even from the Cape of Good Hope. 
