﻿Horticultural Society (Lindley). Fortune, in the accounts of his 

 travels, understands by North China the provinces of Ohekiang 

 (Ning po) and Kiang su (Shanghai), an improper geographical 

 designation, for these provinces are generally reckoned to belong to 

 Mid-China. In DC. Prodr. xii. 1848, Bentham, Labiatse, p. 512, we 

 read : Lanrium chinense Fortune, A, 83, China ; and p. 580, Tencrium 

 uej'rtafntiuw Fortune, A, 73, China. Hooker, S>.v. Filkuw, v. 

 1864, 95, roh/pn.Uum Fnrtunei Kuuze, writes: Fortune, A, 78, 

 China. From these citations we may conclude that neither Ben- 

 tham nor Sir W. Hooker were aware of the meaning of Fortune's A. 



Mr. Hemsley lately wrote me that his conviction is that A on 

 Fortune's labels invariably means Amoy, as distinguished from his 

 North China, and in the hvh > Flow S*w., accordingly, Hemsley 

 refers all plants thus marked to Amoy. I have no doubt that he is 

 right, but nevertheless it would be interesting to have the opinion 

 of other competent botanists on the subject. The greater part 

 of Fortune's Chinese collection was worked up by several dis- 

 tinguished botanists in England and on the Continent during 

 his lifetime. It is therefore surprising that none of the English 

 botanists of London who determined Fortune's plants (Sir W. 

 Hooker, Bentham, &c.) have thought of asking him what he 

 intended to mean by the designation A. Fortune lived in London 

 till 1866, and then retired to Scotland ; but he died in London, 

 13th April, 1880. 



Seniavin. — The late C. Maximowiez has recorded, in various 

 volumes of the Mint. Acad, and the Melanges Biol., twelve Chinese 

 plants from a collection in the herbarium of the Bot. Garden, 

 St. Petersburg, which Dr. Fischer, till 1850 Director of that Garden, 

 had received from Seniavin. Time not given :— Hypericum Senia- 

 vini, sp. nov. ; MSI. Biol. xi. 169. Rubus parvifolius Linn. I. c. viii. 

 392. Photinia villosa DC. I. c. ix. 176. Hydrangea hortemis var. 

 Maxim. Hydrang. 14. H. chinensis, sp. nov. ; ibidem, 7. Viburnum 

 dilatatum Thbg. ft./onnosanum Maxim. Mel. Biol. x. 666. Loniara 

 japonica Thbg. i.e. 56. Ehododmdron Seniavini, sp.nov.; Maxim. 

 /.'/,./.,./. an. /;. cllipticum, sp. nov.; MH. Biol. xii. 748. Didymo- 

 carpus lanuginosa Wall. I. c. ix. 868. Premna microphyUa Turcz. 

 i.e. xii. 510. P. japonica Miq. ; Maxim, Fragm. Fl. Asia, 40. 

 Localities given on the labels : China australis, sometimes China 

 australior. Only the Patbus is from China media. 



In an old inventory of the various collections preserved in the 

 Bot. Museum of the Bot. Garden, St. Petersburg, Sept. 1856, 

 I found noticed: 9 bundles of Chinese plants collected by Seniavin, 

 and received by Fischer. Now these plants are incorporated with 

 the great herbarium of Eastern Asiatic plants (Japan, Manchuria, 

 Amur, Mongolia, China, Tibet), which is kept apart from the 

 general herbarium, and it is quite impossible to find them out 

 without looking through the whole herbarium. 



Seniavin is certainly a Russian name, but considering the time 

 which this collection implies, the view that it was made by a 

 Russian cannot be accepted. In Nov. 1805, the Russian Admiral 

 Krusenstern (who previously had served in the English fleet), on 



