APPENDIX X 

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE I. Reproduction of a painting of the lychee attributed to the Sung 

 Emperor, Hui Tsung (1100-1126 A. D.) and entitled "The Ch'en Purple 

 Lychee Embroidered Fragrant Bag." Photograph, February, 1921, by 

 permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (one-third natural size). 



PLATE II, Frontispiece. A Kwangtung lychee landscape. A nine-story pagoda, 

 a Canton slipper-boat and lychee trees along the dykes of the streams. Honan 

 Island, Canton, China. January, 1915. Photograph (No. 1049.544) by the 

 author. 



PLATE III, FIGURE ia. Reproduction of a rubbing of the "Li Chih P'u" by 

 Ts'ai Hsiang (two-fifths natural size). This work was composed in Fukien 

 Province, China, in 1059 A. D. It was divided into seven parts of which this 

 page, scarred and cracked, represents the first portion of Part I. The work 

 is possibly the oldest horticultural monograph extant. Ts'ai Hsiang's literary 

 name is (Ts'ai) Chun-mo; and his canonization title, given by the Emperor 

 after his death, is (Ts'ai) Chung-hsiang Kung. Photograph, December, 1920, 

 for the author, from the copy in the Library of Congress Chinese collection. 

 The set of rubbings from the inscription on stone, in the Library of Con- 

 gress Chinese collection, is mounted, Chinese style, in a folded portfolio of 70 

 pages. Photostat copies of this, as well as of a set of rubbings from a facsimile 

 copy on wood, in which all the characters are perfect, can be secured by 

 arrangement with the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



PLATE III, FIGURE ib. Reproduction of a copy of the "Li Chih P'u" by Ts'ai 

 Hsiang, neatly written upon silk. This page also represents Part I of the 

 work and is reproduced here about two-fifths natural size. The silk copy 

 which has been in the possession of one Chinese family for at least five genera- 

 tions, though slightly worm-eaten, is well preserved. Photograph, 1920, for 

 the author. 



PLATE IV, FIGURE ic. Reproduction of a reprint of the "Li Chih P'u" by 

 Ts'ai Hsiang, representing the first page of Part II as it appears in the Tsung 

 Li Yaman reprint, of The Chinese Imperial Encyclopedia (two-thirds natural 

 size). Photograph, 1920, for the author, from the copy in the Library of 

 Congress Chinese collection. 



PLATE V, FIGURE 2. Fruiting material of an herbarium specimen of Litchi 

 philippinensis Radlk (one-half natural size). The specimen was collected in 

 Tambalos Province, Luzon, P. I., in April, 1905, by W. M. Maule. A quo- 

 tation from Radlkofer, attached to the specimen, states: "These fruits seem 

 really partly to split by exsiccation, but nevertheless the plant is from floral 

 and anatomical characters a true litchi." It is important as a matter of record 

 to note, on the leaves of this specimen, lychee leaf-galls, a species of Eriophyes, 

 a conspicuous enemy of the cultivated lychee (see page 84) . Photograph by 

 the author (No. 31136), February, 1918, with permission of the Bureau of 

 Science, Manila, P. I. 



PLATE V, FIGURE 3. Fruiting material of an herbarium specimen of Euphoria 

 cinerea Radlk (one-half natural size). The collector was H. N. Whitford. 

 The fruits were secured from a 5o-meter tree growing at the foot of a hill, on 

 river-bottom land, along Lamao River, P. I. Photograph by the author (No. 

 31134), February, 1918, with permission of the Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



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