122) BOTANICON SINICUM. 
that these identifications have partly been derived from Loureiro’s 
Flora cochinchinensis, 
In the same year Dr. Williams published the first edition of his 
valuable Chinese Commercial Guide, the 5th and last edition of 
which appeared in 1863. In the chapter devoted to Chinese 
Articles of Export a good many scientific names of Chinese 
economic plants are found. The first attempt to examine the 
Chinese articles of export, or to bring together the scattered 
notices of them, had previously been made by Morrison. See 
“Chinese Repository” IT. 1834, p. 447—472. The Report of the 
commercial delegates attached to the French Embassy of M. de 
Lagréné, 1844—46 (see Etude pratique du Commerce d’ Expor- 
tation en Chine, par N. Rondot, 1848), was also made use of in 
the compilation of the later editions of Dr. Williams’ Commercial 
Guide. But there is a great deal of original matter to be found 
in this book, and a sound critical sense displayed in utilizing the 
material furnished by previous authors. 
An article published in Vol. VII. (1848) of the “ Repertorium 
fiir Pharmacie und practische Chemie in Russland,” p- 565 sq., 
by G. Gauger, and entitled Chinesische Roharzneiwaaren, may be 
considered as the first attempt to examine and describe Chinese 
drugs. The 54 Chinese drugs described by Gauger were 
placed in his hands by Dr. P. Kirilov, who from 1832 to 1840 
was attached as a physician to the Russian Ecclesiastical 
Mission at Peking, and whose name is connected with many new 
Peking plants transmitted to the Botanical Gardens of St, Peters- 
burg, or to his friend N. Turczaninov, Gauger gives a detailed 
description of these drugs and of their physical properties, ac- 
_ companied by drawings. The Chinese names are also added, but 
only in European spelling. As regards the botanical origin of these 
drugs, Gauger ventures in a few cases only some suggestions. 
Dr. A. Tatarinov’s Catalogus Medicamentorum sinensium, pub- 
lished at St. Petersburg in 1856, has a far higher value. Tatari- 
45 Andr. Cleyer, of whom I shall speak further on, published i 
Z a m, published in 1682 a small 
treatise : exe — ya Chinensium, enumerating 289 Chinese drugs with the 
Chinese | According to Portuguese orthography, But this pamphlet, translated by 
Father M. Boym from some Chinese treatise, and wit i identificati 
; hehehe , and without annotations or identifications, 
