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ical Garden, consists of nearly 8,000 sheets of dried specimens. 
Ferns and their allies with a few mosses number about 500 sheets, 
the remainder being flowering plants. The greater part of this 
herbarium was gathered and dried by Mr. Henry himself and 
natives working under his direction. Still there are a good many 
specimens which he received from other collectors; and the most 
important of these contributions will now be briefly alluded to, 
Dr. Ernst Faber in 1887 made a botanizing trip to Mount 
Omei, the famous sacred mountaig of western China; and a com- 
plete set of plants collected, some 1,200 numbers, was presented 
to Kew. More than 100 new species have already been described 
out of this material. Dr. Faber also gave a second, less com- 
plete set to Mr. Henry, which forms part of the present collec- 
tion. This set is now very valuable, as Dr. Faber’s own her- 
barium was afterwards accidentally destroyed by fire in Shanghai, 
and duplicates of the Omei plants are not extant elsewhere. 
The flora of Hong Kong and of the adjacent mainland as far 
as the Lofau Mountains in the province of Canton, is fairly well 
represented in this collection, as Mr. Ford, the superintendent of 
the Hong Kong Botanical Garden gave to Mr. Henry from time 
to time many specimens which were collected in this area. Other 
collectors in differents parts of China have also contributed, as 
may be seen by the labels of numerous specimens, which bear 
the names of these collectors and the exact localities where the 
plants were gathered. 
Mr. Henry’s own great collections were made in four regions, 
namely: Central China, Hainan, Formosa and Yunnan. In the 
present herbarium there are nearly 1,000 specimens from central 
China, by which is meant the mountainous parts of Hupeh and 
Szechwan in the vicinity of Ichang, a town on the river Yangtse 
inland from Shanghai about 1,000 miles. Hainan is scarcely 
represented at all in the collection, as the material collected there 
was not extensive enough to be divided into sets, and was given 
in its entirety to Kew. 
e Formosan plants number about 1,000 species and consti- 
tute a large proportion of the known plants of the accessible 
part of that island. Its eastern half, a great mountain mass, is 
