18 ; _BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Nearly all the plants figured in the above-mentioned 
Japanese works have been botanically determined fram 
these drawings by Mr. A. Francuet, and partly also by 
Mr. C. Maxtmowtez of the Botanical Garden, St. Petersburg. 
On the plates we find besides the J apanese names also the 
Chinese names of these plants, if such exist, in Chines 
characters, and to these latter my frequent quotations of th 
Japanese works always refer. 
Some years ago the “ Home Department” in Japan publishe 
a description with drawings, admirably well executed, of 10 
Japanese timber trees. Japanese and Chinese names given. 
E. Kaprer’s Amenitates exotiew. 1712. [See Bota 
sin., I, p. 125.] Kawprer describes more than 500 Japa ‘ 
_ plants. Chinese names in Chinese characters generally adde 
Fr. von SIEBOLD, Synopsis Plantarum cwconomica 
universi Regni Japonici. 1827. Chinese names of the Pp. 
in Chinese characters frequently given. 
Dr. Stzoxp’s unpublished coloured drawings of Japane 
plants, about. 600, in the Botanical Museum of the Academ 
St. Petersburg. eee 
_ _ Dr. Fr. von Simponp and Dr. Zuccanret, Flora japoni 
=. vols., 1835-1870, with (150 coloured plates. [See Bota 
sin, I, p. 411.) Se Ss 
ae Horrmaxy et H. Sonvres, Noms indigines dun Che 
de Plantes du Japon et de la Chine déterminés apres” 
Gchantillons de Vherbier des Pays Bas, 1953, [See B 
_ Sm bp 187.) The Japanese and Chinese names are gis 
3 according to the identifications ic s made by Srezoxp. ; 
