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Capt. Balfour, H. M. Consul at Shanghai. 



Major Malcolm. 



Messrs. Dent and Co. 



Messrs. Jardine, Mattheson. and Co. 



John De Salis, Esq. 



Eobert Thora, Esq., H. M. Consul at Ningpo. 



Messrs. Mackenzie, Brothers, and Co., Shanghai. 



W. G. Maxwell, Esq., M.D., Madras Army. 



John Cairn, Esq., Hong Kong. 



Dr. Lockhart, Shanghai. 



Mrs. White, Shanghai. 



B. Butler, Esq., and Don Inigo, of Manilla. 



Mr. Fortune has visited Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Chusan, 

 Ningpo, and Shanghai, besides the settlement of Hong Kong 

 and the well-known country round Macao and Canton. He has 

 lost no opportunity of examining the neighbourhood of those 

 places, as far as the regulations of the Chinese government per- 

 mitted ; he saw the Azaleas in flower at Macao, the Tree 

 Pseonies at Shanghai ; spent some time in the Black-tea district 

 of Fokien, and the Green-tea grounds of Ningpo, at the time 

 when the leaves were gathering and drying at those places. He 

 also paid a short visit to Manilla, whence he succeeded in sending 

 a supply of Phalaenopsis, which has been distributed among the 

 Fellows of the Society. 



China not being a country of annuals, and having been already 

 ransacked in some measure for the merchants resident at Ma- 

 cao, a speedy acquisition of new plants was never anticipated ; 

 nor for some time did it appear as if much progress would be 

 made by the Chinese mission. By degrees, however, valuable 

 plants began to arrive ; the Chinese Buddlea, the gay Chirita 

 sinensis, and the beautiful Anemone japonica excited attention ; 

 the arrival of Mr. Fortune's dried plants enabled the officers of 

 the Society to ascertain that several of the shrubs, which had 

 only just begun to recover from the effects of their long voyage, 

 possessed great interest, and tlie Council can now report that 

 the garden possesses, and in some instances has distributed, the 

 following very valuable species, viz. ; — 



Cry ptomeria japonica, a noble evergreen Coniferous tree, allied 

 to a, Cypress, and apparently quite hardy. 



Two species of Viburnum, with heads of flowers resembling 

 those of the Gueldres rose. 



A beautiful new evergreen species of Forsythia, a genus pre- 

 viously unknown in Europe. 



Twenty-two plants of Moutan Pseonies, among which are deep 

 red, several shades of dark purple, and lilac varieties. 



