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* In addition to my own collection, I ect seine from ae 
at Lungchow in Kwangsi province, some 400 species. Som 
quite interesting. He sends me Tour efortia dae endbostas d which 
is hitherto known only as an Oceanie plant (Formosa, Mauritius, 
Philippines, Australia), and it is like us dict pies pn ni 
anth witidifolia in this respect. By the latter 
in cultivation ? He also sends me e draa as Selina, 
which I found on the Red River. Its pods are the most comic o 
Ceesal pinias have such a point ? It doesn't mean a time when tall 
hairs of fruit of Puer aria thunbergiana, at least any at present. 
The saan stick on the climbing shrub till they dehisce, and out 
drops the seed. 
"1 forgot to say that 1 have secured a magnificent sia OH 
(the flowers are not precocious). Unfortunately I have 8 
on. It would read take a dozen enthusiastic botanists to cope 
with the work her 
* The Lilies are only i ini = so far: Lilium Brownii (?), a lily 
with yellow flowers us; and a small lily with a solitary 
pink flower, and L. ibunt: The Orchids are very numerous. 
But I could go on indefinite 
“My siiki camera, “which has been four — on the 
way from Haifong to here, is just about to arrive. n you give 
any suggestions concerning the uses of pho ao aky f in botany ? 
Of course, I suppose pictures of trees like the Paulownia, just 
spoken of, pictures of curious fruits, &c., will be useful. I mean 
some good scientific line. If you can, please answer the question, 
and refer me to books or journals, if necessary, for illumination. 
pushed on from Mandalay to Kun-lon on the River Salwen, and 
that will mean another station. Already Wuchow is se on the 
West river to Canton, or, to put it pictorially, five new places on 
the five great rivers, five points of entry into Sou shar China. 
Lungchow, which is in Kwangsi, and is be Bs connected by rail 
with Haifong or Hanoi, does no trade vetotion]i d." 
“June 3, 1897.—-1 find, when I go with my pony c the 
woods, that the wild animals seem less frightened, so I g 
glimpses bipes of deer, weasels, small black ones a larg 
flying ones, of partridgen, pomt , snakes, etc. But the other 
day I Moi oe Iw a deep ravin e, with the pony 
e doz left Ent o on n ihe side of he hill above. I heard loud 
