Descriptions of some New Plants from Eastern 
Asia, chiefly from the Island of Formosa, 
presented by Dr. Augustine Henry, F.L.S., 
to the Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
BY 
W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, F.R.S. 
Principal Assistant , Herbarium , Royal Gardens , Kew. 
With Plates VII and VIII. 
I N May of last year Kew received a collection of dried 
plants from Formosa, presented by Dr. A. Henry, the 
same gentleman who previously collected so successfully in 
Hupeh - and Szechuen, and who has sent to Kew probably 
not less than five hundred species previously unknown in the 
botanical world, and also a considerable number of new genera. 
Altogether the collection contained about 1 500 species, and 
the following is a selection therefrom, with a few from the 
mainland of China. It was the wish of the Director of Kew 
that the whole collection should be elaborated and published, 
but pressure of other work has prevented this from being 
done, and in justice to Dr. A. Henry it was decided not to 
delay any longer the publication of those already described. 
They were partly collected by Dr. Henry himself in the 
neighbourhood of Takow, and at the South Cape ; partly 
by a Chinese in the mountains of Bankinsing, in the interior 
of the southern peninsula ; and partly by a Mr. Schmiiser, 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. IX. No. XXXIII. March, 1895.] 
