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cinal use of many plants in Simon’s bookx) which also gives an
extensive list of vernacular and Latin plant names, composed by
Dr. N. Anslyn, military physician. That in such a list many inac-
curacies in the determinations occur is obvious.
I also became aequainted with a publication by Hurtado1 2),
who in an appendix gives a survey of the Curasao flora. This
appendix contains a very large number of mistakes.
It seemed preferable not to quote the plants from the three
publications mentioned and to elaborate in this flora only the
data from recent collections, found in the Utrecht herbary.
1) G. J. Simons. Beschrijving van het eiland Curapao. Oosterwolde 1868.
2) 0. Hurtado. Compendlo di botanica elemental. Curazao. Benthencourt e
Hyos. 1891....”
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