10 ON THE CHINESE PLANTS COLLECTED BY D’INCARYVILLE. 
A. L. de Jussieu, and the rest have been kept, like the Peking 
plants, in a special packet 
I append an baat of M. Franchet’s list of the anaes in the 
belief that it is well worthy of reproduction in a Journal where it 
more accessible to English readers than 1 ‘the French 
Botanical Society’s ‘Transactions.’ The letter ‘““P’’ before the 
names indicates that the plants were collected in the Peking 
district, the letter te that they came from Macao. An asterisk 
after the specific name — that seeds were transmitted by 
d’Inearville at the same time as the specimens. M. Franchet 
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Chinese plants cultivated for more than a century at the gardens, 
this being the case with Pol; ygonum Uasloriais L., Callistephus 
chinensis Nees, (tleditschia sinensis Lamk., and probably also with 
Sophora japonica 
eos es: translations from M. Franchet’s notes may be of 
erest :—‘‘I must here join my regrets to those of Dr. Bret- 
aiiet i and gern’ him deplore the neglect with which Father 
d’Inc er aie s plants have been treated for nearly a century and a 
lf. I have found ications twenty-five species ergs have been 
studied sad named in his two herbaria, and when among these are 
seen generic types of a real interest like Ailantus pando pane 
Inearvillea sinensis A. Li. Juss., Cedrela sinensis Adr. , we not 
help feeling surprised that such materials should ere ive fatkion 
stimulated the scientific curiosity of their possessors. Perhaps the 
reason of this indifference may be sought in the poverty of the 
: cimens, some of hie might at first sight appear insufficient 
for strict determinati 
owever this aie ‘be, it is none the less true that the types 
of most of the genera recognised and described by M. de Bunge 
in 1832 had existed in a French collection since 1740, and that to 
the learned J esuit must bs referred the discovery of Orychophragmus, 
Actinidia, Xanthoceras, Paratropia, Myripnois, Botryospermum, &e. 
Bun. 
Rsiatic Mutisia acea), "bade osace nee a folia Bunge, ” Sh yringa 
amurensis Rupr. and S. aioe Vahl, Andrachne i re Bunge, 
Belaginella mongolica Rw nd S. Stauntoniana Sprin 
‘One of the characteristic traits of Father a Inearville’ S se 
lections is that e plant has its label, giving some 
times 
popular French Roa Beet es its name in Latin, or more ue 
in Chinese, Besides this, the locality og each plant is exactly 
cated, a remarkable thing for that period. For pe in the 
Tittle special herbarium the collector has taken care to distinguish 
the plants gathered in Peking itself from those which came from the 
mountains near the city. The Macao plants are also kept perfectly 
