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all ornamental. Others, however, were really valuable things, 

 amongst which I may mention the Buddlea Lindleyana^ the 

 Azalea orata, and the Cryptomeria japonica. 



The plant cases to which I have already alluded contained 

 amongst other things the following, many of which have been 

 already given away to the Fellows of the Society : — 



Chirita sinensis 

 Arundina sinensis 

 Spathoglottis Fortuni 

 Fingered citron (true) 

 Campantila grandiflora 

 Azalea obtusa 



„ ovata 



„ squamata 

 Abelia rupestris 



Buddlea Lindleyana 

 Anemone japonica 

 Lycoris radiata ? 

 Daphne Fortuni 

 Forsythia viridissima 

 Jasminum nudiflorum 

 Weigela rosea 

 Indigofera decora 

 Cryptomeria japonica 



and 12 or 13 very fine new varieties of the Tree PcEony, having 

 several shades oi purple, lilac, deep red, and white flowers. Be- 

 sides these, the cases contained a number of valuable plants 

 which have not flowered, and about which little is at present 

 known. 



While I was waiting in the south of China for the despatch of 

 the collections just noticed, I took the opportunity of visiting 

 Canton and Macao at two different times, and saw the Camellias, 

 Azaleas, Moutans, and other plants in bloom. The gardens of 

 the Hong merchants and the nurseries at Fa-tee are particularly 

 gay during the spring months with these flowers. The Moutans 

 are yearly brought down from the north to Canton, where they 

 flower shortly afterwards, and are then discarded as useless, as 

 the climate of the south of China is too hot for them ; this trade 

 therefore is not unlike that of Dutch hyacintlis in Europe. 



The mountains near Canton, which I ,visited in company with 

 the late Mr. Lay, as well as those of Hong Kong, were very gay 

 at this season with the flowers of the beautiful Enkianthus reti- 

 <:ulatus. Azalea squamata, and various other species. This part 

 of China, however, had little to increase my collections, and on 

 the 26th of March I started again for the northern provinces. 



The whole of this season was spent in the Chusan, Ningpo, 

 and Shanghae districts, my principal object being to see all the 

 plants of these places in flower, and to mark those which I wanted 

 for seed. In order to do this effectually I was obliged to visit 

 each district three or four times during the summer and autumn. 



The Flora of Chusan and all over the mainland in this part of 

 China is very different from those portions of the south which I 

 have already described. Almost all the species of a tropical 

 character have entirely disappeared, and in their places we find 

 others related to things found in the temperate parts of the world. 

 I here met for the first time the beautiful Glycine sinensis wild 



