BOTANICON SINICUM. 127 
where he employed himself for several years in publishing the 
results of his researches in Japan. In 1859 he went again to that 
country, where he lived till 1862. He died at Munich in 
1866.—Siebold had forwarded one portion of his vast botanical 
collections accumulated in Japan to Prof. C. L. Blume in Java, 
who described some of these plants in the Museum botanicum 
Lugduno-Batavorum, 1849—51. H. Zollinger published a few 
years later an Index of Siebold’s plants in the Java Herbarium 
(Buitenzorg). The greater part of his dried plants, however, had 
been transmitted by Siebold to the Museum of Leyden, and from 
these materials Prof. Miquel compiled his Prolusio Flore japonice, 
1865—67. Siebold himself, with the assistance of Prof. J. G. 
Zucearini of Munich, had commenced much earlier to describe his 
Japanese botanical collections, but their publications were left in 
a fragmentary state. The most interesting of them is the Flora 
japonica, sive plants quas in Imperio Japonico collegit, descripsit, 
ex parte in ipsis locis pingendas curavit Dr. Ph. Fr. de Siebold, 
digessit Dr. Zuccarini, 1835—1844, 127 plates. Miquel attempted 
to continue tkis iconographical work and published, from 1868 
—1870, 23 additional plates.* The original drawings to which 
Siebold alludes on the title pages (about 600) have been purchased, 
together with a set of Siebold’s dried Japanese plants, from his 
widow, by the Academy of St. Petersburg. The drawings form 
eight large volumes and are beautifully executed. 
Siebold always tried to ascertain the Japanese names of the 
plants he gathered, and also noted down the Chinese characters 
applied in Japan to these plants. He was assisted in this task by 
hative botanists, and we can, I think, assume that his identifi- 
cations are quite reliable. 
In 1852 J. Hoffmann and H. Schultes published a small 
pamphlet entitled: Noms indiyénes d’un choix de Plantes du Japon 
et de la Chine, d’aprés les échantillons de Pherbier des Pays Bas. 
A new enlarged edition of this list was issued in 1864. It is an 
46 I know only the 127 plates published by Siebold and Zuccarini. Franchet and 
Savatier, Enum. ae Japon., Pref. XIIL., state that in all 175 of these plates have 
been published, but in the second vol. p. 665 the authors assign to the Flora japonica 
150 plates only. a y 
