Аннотация:Hugh Cuming's collection of fl owering plants kept in the Moscow University Herbarium (MW) was studied. It contains 420 type specimens (271 isotypes, 5 possible isotypes, 22 isolectotypes, 1 isoneotype, 5 paratypes, 96 syntypes, 3 possible syntypes, 4 types of unknown status, 9 possible types, 1 authentic specimen, and 3 possible authentic specimens), 403 non-type specimens and 106 specimens of unknown status. A list of 395 taxa based upon Cuming's collections in MW is given.