1854.] 



Some account of the Botanical Collection. 



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Polygonea?, ... 

 Urticeae, 

 Tamariscinae, 

 Silenacese, . . . 



Eosacese, 



Leguminosse, 

 Primulaceae, 

 Asclepiadese, 

 Apocynese ? . . . 

 Convolvulaceae, 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



Polygonum Eagopyrum ? ... 



Cannabis sativa, 



Tamarix, 



Dianthus, 



f Potentilla, 



\ Agrimonia, ... 



Papilionacese, 



Lysimachia, 



Cynanchum sibiricum ? 



Convolvulus, 



Total, 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 

 1 



4 



1 



1 



1 



1 



14 



The total number of Species in a state admitting of determination is 



as follows : — 



Straits of Malacca, 81 



Canton, 37 



Chusan, 133 



•jPekin, 



Tengchou, 

 Toki, 



25 



Total, 



276 



I snail now make such remarks as I am able on the most interest- 

 ing forms of these collections. 



STEAITS' COLLECTION. 



AsABroE. — The specimens of Thottea consist of a flower, part of 

 a raceme, and a full grown leaf. A description and drawing of 

 this plant, first met with by Konig in 1779, is now in the possession 

 of the Linnean Society. 



Teenstecemiace.^ ? — I refer with some doubt to this family 

 Ixonanthes of Jack. This genus, hitherto only known from Jack's 

 description, has been placed doubtfully among Cedrelaceae by Dr. 

 Lindley and M. Endlicher ; with which however its resemblances 



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