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The months in which most species are in flower are April and 
May and most of the collections on which our knowledge of the 
flora is based were gathered in those months. 
Sources of information regarding the flora.—It may be said, in the 
first place, that no information of any kind has been or can be col- 
lected from ese sources, which could be usefully included in the 
kind of Flora expected by western readers. The foundation of 
€ Flora is the Colonial Herbarium at Hongkong, to which refer- 
ce has already been made. The Kwan gtung material therein has 
practically all been collected by the European officers of the Botan- 
al and Forestry Department and their Chinese assistants. Such 
ipii i in fs works enumerated below as were additional to the 
erbarium records have been included with them in the list. Special 
which has been utilised largely throughout. The Kwantung 
records in the herbaria of Kew and the British Museum are taken 
up usually on that authority alone, as no collections from the pro- 
vince of any importance have been added to them since the 
publication of the work. 
There are, however, several large Daten ont on the continent which 
remain to be searched for Kwangtung records. The herbarium, 
for instance, of the late Drake del Castillo ege de many collections 
of Kwangtung plants. They, with the rest of his herbarium, were 
bequeathed to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, but owing to want 
of space at the Jardin des Plantes they still lie at his house in Pari ris, 
where they can be seen on application. The Paris Herbarium itself 
as not been consulted : it doubtless contains PREG material whic 
would add to our knowledge of the provincial flor 
The principal books from which information was V E were : 
am's Flora Hongkongensis. 
Forbes and Hemsley’s Enum. Pl. Chi 
Finet and Gagnepain’s Flore de FER Orientale. 
Miquel in ds i Bot. Néerl. i. (Krone’s plants.) 
Journal of B 
Hooker’ s aie ps fe dene 
Kew Bulletin. 
Extent of information.— The relative amount of attention that each 
art of the province has received may be gathered from the 
following comparison between the numbers of “records from each, 
which are to in the following pages. Out of each 100 records, 
23, on an ayerage, are found to refer to Hongkong (chiefly from 
Ford, Hance, Ticker), 15 to the New Territory (ford, Dunn, 
Tutcher), 11 to the Swatow hinterland (Dunn), 10 to the Lienchow 
River (Ford, B. P vii duo five n: to Canton (Hance, Sampson), 
Lofoushan (red chiefly), N. River (Sampson, Ford) W. River 
(Hance) and Macao ( Vachell), four to Hoifung (Dunn’s Chinese 
anter). and 2 to other parts. 
Character of flora.—A visitor landing on the shore of Kwangtung— 
the only part of gne coast of China washed by tropical seas—first 
notices that the maritime phanerogamic flora is distinctly poe, e the 
only element perhaps of the S. China flora which does no 
remarkably rich to the Puroponn visitor. On sandy fasta a iss 
turf usually commences from the high water line varied by patches 
