JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. VII.— 1854. 



Some account of the Botanical Collection, brought from the eastward, 

 in 1841, by Dr. Cantor. By the late W. Griffith Bsq., F. L. 8. 

 Memb. Imp. Acad. Natur. Curios., — Boyal Batisb. Botan. Soc, 

 — Corr. Memb. Hort. Soc, — Boyal Acad. Turin, — Assist. Surgeon, 

 Madras Establishment. 



Note. — The following paper has been printed for several years and was intended 

 to form part of an interesting communication by Dr. Cantor on the Natural 

 History of Chusan which was to lead off Vol. XXI. of the Asiatic Researches. 

 This publication having been, for the present at all events, discontinued, Dr. 

 Griffith's valuable Memoir on Chusan Botany has been reprinted and is now 

 published with the four plates which accompanied it. — Ed. 



This collection consists of Plants from the Straits of Malacca, 

 from Lantao, Chusan, and a few from Pekin: the bulk of the 

 Chinese Plants being from Chusan. The Straits' specimens were, 

 I believe, given to Dr. Cantor by the Kev. Mr. White, Chaplain of 

 Singapore. 



The following lists exhibit the genera and the number of species 

 procured from the above-mentioned localities : the names of a few 

 species being added : — 



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