THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 

 Vol. XIII MAY, 1918 No. 3 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF LOH FAU MOUNTAIN, KWANGTUNG 



PROVINCE, CHINA 



By E. D. Merrill^ 



(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila) 



In 1916 I spent the period from October 13 to November 9 

 in prosecuting field work in botany in Kwangtung Province, 

 working chiefly in the immediate vicinity of Canton, with a few 

 days' trip to Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan). The trip was 

 made possible through the interest of Doctor Walter T. Swingle, 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture, and one of its 

 objects was to encourage the authorities at the Canton Christian 

 College to undertake the formation of a local herbarium and 

 to initiate some work in a botanical exploration of Kwangtung 

 Province in connection with the course in agriculture that was 

 being developed in that institution. The idea of developing 

 botanical work in the Canton Christian College was encouraged 

 for the reason that through such work we could reasonably 

 expect to secure in the future not only botanical material from 

 the less-explored parts of Kwangtung Province, but also seeds 

 and living plants of valuable economic species. 



Mr. G. Weidman Groff, of the Canton Christian College, was 

 deeply interested in the project but, on account of his pending 

 departure for the United States on leave, the matter of develop- 

 ing the work devolved on Mr. C. 0. Levine, who had recently 

 accepted an appointment in the college. With such information 

 as I could impart to Mr. Levine in the short time that I was in 

 Canton as a basis for the work, he took up the project with 

 great enthusiasm, and as one result has had collected and sub- 



' Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 

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