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mitted to me for identification more than 1,800 numbers of plants 
in slightly more than one year. The local herbarium established 
as a result of my visit is rapidly expanding and bids fair to 
prove a most valuable adjunct to the work of the college. 
Through the continued interest of Doctor Swingle it was 
possible for me to repeat the trip in 1917, utilizing for 
the purpose my annual leave, as I had done in 1916. As a 
result of the two trips I have been able to spend the periods 
from October 13 to November 9, and from August 9 to August 
27 in prosecuting field work in botany in Kwangtung Province. 
The work has resulted not only in the accumulation of consider- 
able collections of botanical material, but the collections have 
yielded representatives of about seventy-five species not pre- 
viously recorded from Kwangtung Province, including about 
thirty that are presumably new to science. 
In a previous paper 1 2 based on collections made by me in 1916 
I recorded about twenty-three species as new to the Kwangtung 
flora, describing six as new. The present paper is in the nature 
of a continuation of the first one, but is based chiefly on the 
collections made by me on Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), 
August 9 to 27, 1917, supplemented by material secured by Mr. 
Levine in the same locality and collected at the same time, and 
includes some material secured by Mr. Levine at other localities 
in Kwangtung Province. 
Loh Fau Mountain was selected as the base for field work not 
only because it is one of the highest mountains in Kwangtung 
Province, and because a botanical exploration of the region pro- 
mised to yield considerable of interest, but also because of the 
fact that various American and European residents of Canton 
had established there a summer camp. By utilizing the facilities 
provided by this camp, the matter of prosecuting field work was 
greatly simplified. Moreover, the location of the camp at an 
altitude of approximately 1,000 meters rendered it possible for 
us to explore the more interesting floristic regions, which are 
located chiefly in the deep forested ravines at higher altitudes, 
with a minimum loss of time and effort. Most of our field work 
was prosecuted on the upper parts of the mountain, but trips 
were made to the base at So Liu Koon and at Wa Shau T’oi, 
as in the vicinity of the monasteries at these two places con- 
siderable low-altitude forested areas still exist. In the period 
from August 9, the date of our arrival at the camp, to August 
1 Merrill, E. D., Notes on the flora of Kwangtung Province, China, Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 12 (1917) Bot. 99-116. 
