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written by Mr. Hinds. At the same period, Dr. Theodore Cantor published some useful 
remarks on the Island of Chusan, where he collected about a hundred and fifty species, the 
generic names of which were revised by the late Mr. Griffith (Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 265). 
Subsequently, Mr. Robert Portune arrived in China in the commencement of 1843, as col- 
lector for the Horticultural Society of London, and made various excursions in Hongkong 
and its neighbourhood. Many new plants discovered by him in these districts, and in his 
travels in the Northern Provinces of China, have been described by Professor Lindlcy in the 
* Journal of the Horticultural Society.' Finally, Major Champion, of H.M. 59th Regiment, 
having removed in 1847 to Hongkong, commenced an indefatigable study of the Flora of 
■the Island ; the late Dr. Gardner described several new and interesting species transmitted 
by him in ' Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kcw Garden Miscellany' for 1849, and a full and 
critical review of his herbarium, by Mr. Bentham, appeared in the same periodic^. To these 
must be added Lieutenant-Colonel J. Eyre, R.A., Dr. W. A. Harland, and J. C. Bowring, 
Esq., lately or at present residing in the island, to whom we are indebted for many valuable 
contributions. 
The above is, it is believed, a nearly complete list of the furtherers of our knowledge of 
the Flora of these regions ; others have been purposely omitted, either because their re- 
searches were confined to more northern districts of the same empire, such as D'Incarville, 
Bunge, etc., or because, as in the cases of Cleyer, Sonncrat, IMcnzies, Sparmann, etc., they 
did not seem of sufficient importance to deserve particular specification. In conclusion, we 
may observe that various European gardens and herbaria have been enriched by the contri- 
butions of Vachell, Reeves, Philippi, Gallery, Braine, and others. 
The collections which form the chief basis of the folloAving enumeration were made l)y 
Dr. H. F. Hanee, who arrived in Hongkong towards the end of 1844, and remained there 
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until April, 1851, when he came back to Europe with his collections, and deposited them 
with the Author. Dr. Hance himself published a considerable number of new plants disco- 
vered by him in the second volume of Walpers' ' Annales,* and in ' Hooker's Journal of 
Botany and Kew Miscellany ;' and he has besides supplied the chief parts of the notes for 
the Historical Notice and the Introduction of this Flora. The Author's own stay at Hong- 
kong and the neighbourhood was limited, from the 1st to the 22nd of December, 1850, an 
account of which will be found at p. 225 of the second volume of the 'Narrative of the 
Voyage of H.M.S. Herald,' and in * Hooker's Journal of Botany.' 
All allusions to the progress which the Chinese themselves have made in Botany have 
here been purposely omitted, not indeed because it ^\ ould have appeared pedantic to do so, 
but because any observation which might have been offered must necessarily had been de- 
rived from second hand, and at the same time unscientific sources; but it is to be hoped that 
some scientific man, conversant with the Chinese language, will investigate this subject as 
it deserves. Prior to the Tartar conquest of the Celestial Empire, the natives seem to have 
made considerable advance in the study of their Flora ; indeed, if we take the ' Pun-tsan- 
