ON THE CHINESE PLANTS COLLECTED BY D’INCARVILLE. 9 
deciduous corolla from the flower whose stigma shall be fertilized ; 
potyors to take the opened corolla with mature pollen of the hybrid 
o put it over the isolated style of the other plant. The 
éxparitaant promises great success by increased quantity of quinine, 
so that it may be recommended to all Cinchona cultivators. 
ON THE CHINESE PLANTS COLLECTED BY 
D'INCARVILLE (1740-1757). 
By Francis Buackweutu Forpzs, F.L.§. 
Tue valuable paper on “ Karly European pmpeet ie into the 
Flora of China,’’* contributed by Dr. Bretschneider to the ‘ Journal 
of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1880,’ 
has already led to the unearthing of one of the botanical treasures 
to which he drew attention. On page 120 of tiie pamphlet me 
noticed the work of the Jesuit Father d’Incarville, who was 
missionary in Peking from 1740 till his death there in 1757, a 
who during his residence not only transmitted to Europe the seeds 
of many plants which have since become well known in cultivation, 
but forwarded to his instructor Baril de Jussieu, in Paris, 
ried specimens collected with a care unusual at that per 
Regarding these specimens Dr. Bretschneider says:—‘‘I a: 
aware to ‘witat number of species this collection amounts. Tt has 
been incorporated with the ap Spee of the Museum of Paris, 
but has never ‘gud worked up in any regular form. Only a 
new plants of it have been ooessionally selected for publication by 
French oeiatn” ot it is strange to say, from thirty to eighty 
years and more after the specimens were received in Paris.’ 
Luckily for those who are interested in Chinese plants, the 
above paragraph attracted the attention of the eminent botanist 
stoire 
ranchet, who is now on the the Maken "His 
Naturelle in Paris, and who soon ag hace in finding Father 
d’Incarville’s specimens there. Having as far as possible deter- 
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mined them, he laid the result before the Société geen = 
France on January 18th of last year,} exhibiting at the 
the packet of specimens which d’Incarville had sctlsoted at ye 
near Pekin 
It appears from M. Franchet’s aut ng vd Incarville’s plants 
are now in the Paris Museum just as they were when gen —— 
handed over in 1857 by the heirs of Adr. de pe deebes "The 
interesting are 149 species collected in the Peking district, goes 
since preserved in a special packet in the order given them by the 
collector himself. Of the remaining 144 species, all from Maen, 
thirty-five specimens are now to he found in the herbarium of 
* Reviewed ‘ Journ. Bot.,’ 1882, p. 248 
t * Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France,’ tome xxix. (Deuxiéme série, tome iv.) 
Comptes rendus des séances, 1. 
