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entire Philippine Archipelago, a region much larger than the 
Island of Java, we now know approximately 5,500 species, in 
about 1,350 genera, representing 183 families. 
The work is illustrated by a total of 19 plates, 139 text figures, 
most of the former and some of the latter original, and 4 charts. 
It must be considered to be one of the most important publications 
dealing with the Malayan flora that has been issued in recent 
years and the most important single publication dealing with the 
flora of the Netherlands East Indies that has appeared since the 
publication of Miquel’s “Florae Indiae Batavae” over fifty years 
ago. 
E. D. Merrill. 
Vol. VII, No. Jf, including pages 209 to 258, was issued September SO, 1912. 
