86 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
Various cultivations (69): Bamboo, Tea-plant, Safflower, Indigo plants. Lithosper- _ 
Mum erythrorhizon, Rehmannia glutinosa, Typha, Matting grass, Juncus effusus. 
Domestic Animals. Books 70—71, 
VIII. On Rearing Silkworms and Planting Mulberry-trees.® 
Books 72—76. 
Additional section on Textile plants. Books 77—78. 
Cotton, Hemp, Boehmeria niyea, Sida tiliefolia, Pueraria Thunbergiana34 Musa. 
3. CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL Works conTaInine BoTanIcAL 
INFORMATION. 
A vast part of native literature is devoted to the Geography of 
China proper and the adjacent countries. The Chinese are ac- 
customed to give in their topographical works more or less detailed 
accounts of the Natural productions. Thus in the A Yi hung, 
already mentioned (see above Shu king), the earliest description 
of China extant, the productions of the soil are enumerated for 
each of the nine provinces of the Empire. 
The next General Description of China, which has been handed 
down to us, is the —e 28 AF GL Tai ping Huan yi ki, in 198 
books, by && yf Lo Shi, published during the period T“ai p‘ing, 
A. D. 976—983. The natural productions are given for each 
prefecture. | 
_ The 55 — ¥ 3 Yuan I tung chi, or Great Geography of the 
-Yiian or Mongol dynasty, seems to have survived only in some 
_33 These five books were translated by Stan. Julien, Sur Ja Cultond des Muriers et 
PEducation des Vers & soie, 1837, , 
_ 34 The articles on the cultivation of Beehmeria nivea and Pueraria Thunbergiana 
were translated by Stan! Julien. See: Industries de l'Empire Chinois 1. ¢. 162, and 
Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences XVIT, 1843, p 421, 
35 In 1842 Prof. W. Schott, Berlin, published in the « Abhandlungen der Kgl. 
Akademie der Wissenschaften,” p. 245-385. a paper: Skizze zu einer Topographie der 
Producte des Chinesischen Reiches, After some bibliographical notices of the Pen 
ts'ao kang mu and other native works on Natural His , 
_ Natural Products of China ac 
of Caan, Was drawn from the Tai ying Huang yit ki and another descriptive account 
