PREFACE 
In 1904 I began my journeying in Yunnan for Mr. Bulley, of 
Bees Limited, and continued my exploration in the years 1905 
and 1906, returning to Scotland early in-1907. Whilst collecting 
seeds and fruits of horticultural interest for Mr. Bulley I made 
a herbarium of the plants which I met with, and this collection, 
by consent of Mr. Bulley, was sent to the Royal Botanic Garden, 
dinburgh. 
In rgr0 I went out again to Yunnan for Mr. Bulley and 
collected there during that year. The herbarium of plants I 
amassed during this second journey I also gave to the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
The following list, to which these remarks are a preface, is a 
catalogue of the names of the plants, so far as they have been 
identified, that I obtained during my first exploration in the 
years 1904, 1905, and 1906. A subsequent list will be published 
in which will be included the plants collected during my second 
expedition in Igto. | a3 
' The identification of species of plants from China is at the 
present moment a matter of some difficulty. This may be 
ascribed primarily to the fact that so few specimens illustrative 
of Franchet’s types have been distributed from the Paris Museum, 
and consequently, excepting at Paris, comparison of actual 
specimens in the collections made by Delavay, Ducloux, Soulié, 
and other French missionaries cannot be made. And then, as 
have now been gone over and named, and the following catalogue 
gives the result. Dr. Diels himself has described the larger 
