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mitted to me for identification more than 1,800 numbers of plants 

 in slightly more than one year. The local herbarium established 

 as a result of my visit is rapidly expanding and bids fair to 

 prove a most valuable adjunct to the work of the college. 



Through the continued interest of Doctor Swingle it was 

 possible for me to repeat the trip in 1917, utilizing for 

 the purpose my annual leave, as I had done in 1916. As a 

 result of the two trips I have been able to spend the periods 

 from October 13 to November 9, and from August 9 to August 

 27 in prosecuting field work in botany in Kwangtung Province. 

 The work has resulted not only in the accumulation of consider- 

 able collections of botanical material, but the collections have 

 yielded representatives of about seventy-five species not pre- 

 viously recorded from Kwangtung Province, including about 

 thirty that are presumably new to science. 



In a previous paper 2 based on collections made by me in 1916 

 I recorded about twenty-three species as new to the Kwangtung 

 flora, describing six as new. The present paper is in the nature 

 of a continuation of the first one, but is based chiefly on the 

 collections made by me on Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), 

 August 9 to 27, 1917, supplemented by material secured by Mr. 

 Levine in the same locality and collected at the same time, and 

 includes some material secured by Mr. Levine at other localities 

 in Kwangtung Province. 



Loh Fau Mountain was selected as the base for field work not 

 only because it is one of the highest mountains in Kwangtung 

 Province, and because a botanical exploration of the region pro- 

 mised to yield considerable of interest, but also because of the 

 fact that various American and European residents of Canton 

 had established there a summer camp. By utilizing the facilities 

 provided by this camp, the matter of prosecuting field work was 

 greatly simplified. Moreover, the location of the camp at an 

 altitude of approximately 1,000 meters rendered it possible for 

 us to explore the more interesting floristic regions, which are 

 located chiefly in the deep forested ravines at higher altitudes, 

 with a minimum loss of time and effort. Most of our field work 

 was prosecuted on the upper parts of the mountain, but trips 

 were made to the base at So Liu Koon and at Wa Shau T'oi, 

 as in the vicinity of the monasteries at these two places con- 

 siderable low-altitude forested areas still exist. In the period 

 from August 9, the date of our arrival at the camp, to August 



' Merrill, E. D., Notes on the flora of Kwangtung Province, China, Philip. 

 Journ. Set. 12 (1917) Bot. 99-116. 



