554 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
independent administration), the other provinces 7 i (%# Bi] 
pu cheng shi sz‘ or governorships. Pei chi li is the present 
Chi li,—Nan chi li, also called jf j{j Kiang nan, comprised 
the present provinces Kiang su and An hui. The present 
Kan su was included in Shen si. The present Hu pei and 
Hu nan formed the province 3] ¥ Hu kuang. The other 
names of the provinces were as nowadays. 140 fu, 193 chou 
and 1,138 hien. 
The following identifications of ancient geographical 
names occurring in the Pen ts‘ao kang mu are for the greater 
part based upon the geographical sections of the Chinese 
dynastic histories. The Chinese geographical dictionary 
BE TU $e HB GR Li tai ti li chi [see Bot. sin., I, p. 69] was 
compiled from the same sources, but it refers only to the 
prefectures, departments and districts. The names of the 
ancient provinces of China, so frequently noticed in the Pen 
ts‘ao kang mu, are not included. Buror in his Dictionnaire 
des noms anciens et modernes des villes, ete. dans Vempire 
chinots (1842), translated from the Mi 1 3 Kuang yi he 
[see Bot. sin., I, p. 69], also does not give the names of the 
provinces, nor are they given in Puayrair’s Cities and Towns 
of China (1879). 
1— E Anlu. Pie lu. 
Early Han: hien. Now: Hu pei, Te an fu. 
2.—# An tung. Cun‘en Ts‘anc-x‘t. 
Sung: chou. Now: Kiang su, Huai an fu, An tung 
hien. 
3.—M Chang an. T‘ao Hunc-x1na. 
Later Han: Aen. Tsin dynasty : /ien, depending 9 
Lin hai kiin [see infra, 192]. Now: Che kiang, Tai chou fu. 
