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all cases added in different type after the * Index Kewensis ' name. Where 
new species are published in synonymous genera cross-references are given. 
The geographieal area comprised is the same as that shown on the map 
published with the “ Enumeration that is to say, the whole of China proper 
with Formosa, the Luchu Islands, the Corean Archipelago, Corea, S. Man- 
churia, the huge tract of half-desert country between the Nan Shan and the 
Altai ranges, and the Thibetan provinces of Batang and Litang. Whether 
the boundary thus indicated is the most natural that ean be devised with the 
greatly increased knowledge of the flora of Asia whieh we now possess is à 
matter of doubt, but this would not be the place to attempt to revise it if 
such revision were desirable. 
The period under notice has seen the commencement of an important 
descriptive Flora of the eastern watershed of Asia by Finet and Gagnepain *. 
It comprises nearly the whole of our area as well as the sub-arctic regions to 
the north-east and the enormous tracts of tropical forest in Cochin China and 
Siam to the south-west. In it is given for the first time a complete enumera- 
tion of the species collected by Delavay, Soulié, Farges, Bodinier, Ducloux, 
and the other great French collectors whose accumuiated treasures in the 
Paris Museum Herbarium are hardly known to the world. 
But perhaps the most encouraging feature of the last few years has been 
the rapidly growing botanical enterprise of the Japanese. Two elaborate 
enumerations of the Flora of Formosa have already appeared, while an 
equally full account of that of Corea is in progress. 
The completion of Komarov's ‘Flora of Manchuria’ fills another gap in 
our knowledge of the vegetation of the northern boundaries, while further 
lists of plants sent by German collectors from Shantung and Shensi add to 
our scanty acquaintance with the Flora of the Northern Provinces of China 
proper. The Flora of Hupeh, already better known than that of most 
provinces, receives fresh elucidation through Pampanini’s exhaustive list of 
the collections of Silvestri. 
In South China the chief novelties have been published by Léveillé from 
collections made by French Missionaries in the extraordinarily rich mountain- 
ranges of Kweichau, while the botanical exploration of the South-Eastern 
Provinces has been continued from the botanical station established by the 
British Government at Hongkong. 
The energy of the British collector, Mr. Augustine Henry, finds further 
recognition in this list by the publication of many hundred additional records 
for the Flora of Yunnan on the authority of his specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium. Both he and his fellow-countrymen, Messrs. E. H. Wilson and 
Forrest, have within recent years made enormous collections of splendid 
material in the wildest and least-explored regions of China, but only a small 
ж “ Contributions à la Flore de l'Asie Orientale," Меп, Soc. Bot. Ir. iv. (1905). 
