THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
VOL. XIII MAY, 1918 No. 3 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF LOH FAU MOUNTAIN, KWANGTUNG 
PROVINCE, CHINA 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila) 
In 1916 I spent the period from October 13 to November 9 
in prosecuting field work in botany in Kwangtung Province, 
working chiefly in the immediate vicinity of Canton, with a few 
days’ trip to Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan). The trip was 
made possible through the interest of Doctor Walter T. Swingle, 
of the United States Department of Agriculture, and one of its 
objects was to encourage the authorities at the Canton Christian 
College to undertake the formation of a local herbarium and 
to initiate some work in a botanical exploration of Kwangtung 
Province in connection with the course in agriculture that was 
being developed in that institution. The idea of developing 
botanical work in the Canton Christian College was encouraged 
for the reason that through such work we could reasonably 
expect to secure in the future not only botanical material from 
the less-explored parts of Kwangtung Province, but also seeds 
and living plants of valuable economic species. 
Mr. G. Weidman Groff, of the Canton Christian College, was 
deeply interested in the project but, on account of his pending 
departure for the United States on leave, the matter of develop- 
ing the work devolved on Mr. C. O. Levine, who had recently 
accepted an appointment in the college. With such information 
as I could impart to Mr. Levine in the short time that I was in 
Canton as a basis for the work, he took up the project with 
great enthusiasm, and as one result has had collected and sub- 
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1 Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
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