HISTORICAL NOTE, xi 
Veitch and Sons, with a liberality worthy of their distinguished 
firm, have presented to the Kew Herbarium a complete set of 
Wilson's plants. Some are taken up in the later parts of the 
Enumeration, 
In 1875 Mr. Hemsley had drawn up a rough list of the Chinese 
plants in the Kew Herbarium for Mr. Forbes. It contained 
3061 species, including ferns. The present Enumeration contains 
8271, of which 4230 are endemic or not known to occur outside 
the Chinese Empire. The most moderate estimate cannot put the 
whole flora as containing less than 12,000 species. 
It only remains in bringing this note to a conclusion to add a 
few particulars as to the bibliography, which have been supplied 
by Mr. Hemsley. 
With regard to the literature cited, it may be useful to explain 
two or three points which might not otherwise be quite clear. 
Throughout, the “ Mélanges Biologiques " are cited for Maximo- 
wicz’s species, though in most instances they were originally 
published in the “ Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences 
de St. Pétersbourg.” The references to Franchet’s “ Plante 
Davidiane ” are to the repaged issue of the ** Première Partie," 
and not to the original pages in the ** Nouvelles Archives du 
Museum.” On the other hand, the pages are given of the 
“ Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi ” for Miquel’s “ Pro- 
lusio Flore Japonice,” of which there is a repaged edition. 
Maximowicz’s “ Ad Flore Asi Orientalis cognitionem meliorem 
Fragmenta? is sometimes cited under this title, and sometimes 
the references are direct to the “ Bulletin de la Société Impériale 
des Naturalistes de Moscou," but the pagination is the same 
in both. Siebold and Zuccarini’s “Flore Japonice Familie 
Naturales . . . ." originally appeared in the Münchener “ Ab- 
handlungen," vol. iv. 1844-6, and the references are sometimes 
to the pages of the re-issue and sometimes to the consecutive 
numbers of the plants enumerated therein. Bunge's * Enume- 
ratio Plantarum quas in China Boreali collegit" was published 
in the “ Mémoires présentées à l'Académie de St. Pétersbourg 
par divers Savans," ii. 1835, but the references in the following 
* Index " are to a repaged copy. Lastly, the original edition of 
Loureiro's " Flora Cochinchinensis" is the one cited where not 
otherwise stated. 
W. T. THISELTON-DYER. 
Kew, 
December, 1905. 
