LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plate 

 I. 



Fig. 



Facing Page 

 or Plate 



Reproduction of a Lychee Painting Attributed to the Sung 



Emperor, Hui Tsung, and entitled "The Ch'en Purple 

 Lychee Embroidered Fragrant Bag." (One-third 



natural size.) . Back of Frontispiece 



II. A Kwangtung Lychee Landscape Frontispiece 



III. ia. Reproduction of Ancient Rubbing of Ts'ai Hsiang's "Li 



ChihP'u." (Two-fifths natural size.) 16 



III. ib. Reproduction of a Copy of Ts'ai Hsiang's "Li Chih P'u" 



Written on Silk. (About two-fifths natural size.) ... 16 



IV. ic. Reproduction of a Page of Ts'ai Hsiang's "Li Chih P'u" in 



the Tsung Li Yaman Reprint of the Chinese Imperial 



Encyclopedia. (Two-thirds natural size.) 17 



V. 2. Herbarium Specimen of Litchi philippinensis Radlk. (One- 

 half natural size.) 34 



V. 3. Herbarium Specimen of Euphoria cinerea Radlk. (One-half 



natural size.) 34 



VI. 4. Root System of a Mature Lychee Tree 35 



VI. 5. A Flower Panicle of the Lychee 35 



VII. 6. Rice Field with Lychee Trees along Inner and Outer Dykes. 44 



VII. 7. Limb of Lychee Tree over Lotus Pond 44 



VIII. 8. Cantonese Women Harvesting Sagittaria in Muddy Field 



Bordered with Lychee Plate IX 



VIII. 9. Fish-Ponds along the Pearl River Bordered with Lychee . Plate IX 

 IX. 10. Lychee Trees along Walled Dykes of Pearl River . . Plate VIII 

 IX. n. Lychee Trees Withstand the Pearl River in Flood. .Plate VIII 



X. 12. Attractive Walk along Lychee Dykes 45 



X. 13. Lychee and Plum Planted across Dyked Fields 45 



XI. 14. Canton Christian College Students Picking Lychee along 



the Dykes 46 



XI. 15. Crop Watcher and His Thatched Hut along the Dykes . . 46 

 XII. 16. Baskets of Ling Nan Lychee Ready for Market . . Plate XIII 

 XII. 17. Fruiting Clusters of Ling Nan Lychee Plate XIII 



XIII. 18. Canton Christian College Middle School Students in Lychee 



Practicum Plate XII 



XIV. 19. A Heavily Fruiting Limb of Lychee 47 



XIV. 20. The Lychee, a Heavy Bearer 47 



XV. 21. The Lychee Protected from Bats by Wire Netting .... 50 

 XV. 22. Terraced Hillsides of Lo Kang Planted to Lychee and 



Canarium 50 



XVI. 23. Stockade Surrounding Famous Kua lu Hanging-green 



Lychee ...^ 51 



XVI. 24. Bamboo Fence and Net Provide the Kua lu Hanging- 

 green Lychee with Additional Protection 51 



XVII. 25. Upland Plantations of Lychee at Hsin T'ang Not Unlike 



Apple Orchards 52 



XVIII. 26. Fang Yung Lychee Nurseries with Mango Windbreak .. . 53 

 XVIII. 27. Fang Yung Lychee Orchard of Named Varieties for Propa- 

 gation 53 



XIX. 28. Pair of Ta tsao Large crop Lychee Trees 58 



XIX. 29. Fang Yung Nurseryman Seated under Hsi chio tsu Rhino- 

 ceros horn Lychee Tree 58 



XX. An Acid Peaty Soil Better for the Lychee than an Ordinary 



Fertile Soil . .Plate XXI 



