128 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Index of 6—700 plants of Japan (not of China, as might be in- 
ferred from the title), with the scientific botanical names and 
their equivalents in Japanese and in Chinese characters used 
in Japan to designate these plants. The authors of this list depend 
entirely upon Siebold’s identifications, and, as has been already 
explained, it is a mistake on their part to assert that the Chinese 
characters they give are always referred by the natives to the same 
plants, both in Japan and in China. 
The late Dan. Hanbury, well known for his numerous papers 
elucidating the history and the botanical origin of drugs, described 
in the “ Pharmaceutical Journal,” 1860—61 ,2 collection of Chinese 
drugs, received from Shanghai, under the title of Notes on Chinese 
Materia medica. It was reprinted, after the author’s death, in 
1875, by J. Ince in D. Hanbury’s Science Papers, p. 209—277. 
This pamphlet, illustrated by numerous wood-cuts, and giving the 
Chinese names in Chinese characters of 141 drugs, 83 of which 
are derived from the vegetable kingdom, is a very valuable con- 
tribution to our knowledge of Chinese Materia medica. 
The same cannot be said with respect to the Essai sur la Phar- 
macie et la Matidre médicale des Chinois, published in 1865 by 
a French Pharmacologist, 0. Debeaux. He was attached to 
the French army in China in 1860, and had an opportunity of 
making botanical and other collections at several places in China. 
He is also the author of an article on the Tinctorial Plants of 
China, of a Florula of Shanghai (1875), a Florula of Chefoo 
(1877), and a Florula of Tientsin (1879). In all these papers we 
meet with a profusion of Chinese names of plants expressed in 
French spelling, but in the majority of cases they have no re- 
semblance to the real ones, In my article: On the Study and 
Value of Chinese Botanical Works (1871), p. 47, 48, I have 
given some specimens of the information supplied by Debeaux 
with respect to Chinese Botany, and shall therefore not returD 
to the subject. 
Ten years ago (1871) Dr. Fr. Porter Smith brought out a book 
with the title Contributions towards the Materia medica and Na- 
tural History of China, which has often been quoted as a standard 
work in this department by people who cannot discern its real : 
