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On the Conifers of China. By Maxwrri T. Masters, M.D., 
F.R.S., F.L.S., Corresponding Member of the Institute of 
France, Académie des Sciences. 
[Read 7th June, 1906.] 
In the present communication I have endeavoured to do for 
China what I have previously attempted in the case of Japan 
(see Masters, ** On the Conifers of Japan,” in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xviii. (1880) p. 473). 
In the Journal of the Linnean Society, Bot. vol. xxvi. (1902) 
pp. 540 et seq., I have also contributed to the Enumeration of 
Chinese Plants by Forbes & Hemsley a list with references and 
synonyms of all the Conifers then known to be natives of the 
Chinese Empire. That list, although prepared several years 
previously, was not published till October 1902. Since that 
time Dr. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson have enriched our 
collections with numerous examples. Mr. Wilson travelled in 
Central and in Western China, on behalf of Messrs. James Veitch 
& Sons of Chelsea, and not only collected largely but succeeded 
in introducing numerous species to the nurseries of his employers. 
The species collected in his first journey were enumerated in the 
‘Journal of Botany,’ vol. xli. (1903) p. 267. His second journey 
from Ichang along the Yang-tse-kiang to the extreme West of 
China and northward to the Tibetan frontier, a little south of 
lat. 33? and in long. 104°, was still more prolific in novelties. 
Some account of his travels is given in the ‘ Gardeners’ 
Chronicle’ for 1905-6, in which Journal also some of the plants 
known to be in cultivation have been figured and described. In 
the present communication it is intended to present a list of the 
Conifers collected by Mr. Wilson on both of his journeys, and to 
give descriptions of those forms hitherto undescribed. Refer- 
ence is in all eases made to the several species enumerated in 
the Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. xxvi. (1902) before alluded to, and 
to those mentioned in the * Journal of Botany,' vol. xli. (1903). 
The Catalogue now given is as complete as circumstances permit ; 
it is, however, not necessary to repeat the details previously 
published concerning certain species either in the Index or in 
the paper on the Conifers of Japan. The names of the species 
