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madefacti non sordescunt, citoque siccantur, vulgo expetuntur 
et in pretio sunt. (p. 128.) 
Boehmeria nivea. Hook, et Arn., from the fibre of which the so called 
Chinese Qrassclotk is manufactured. 
26. Urbs Li ping (prov. Quei cheu). Pannos conficiunt 
incolae ex cruda Cannabe, seu herba Cannabi prorsus simili. Oo 
Sinae vocant. Ex bis vest.es pro tempore aestivo eximiae 
plane sunt, ac commodissimae. (p. 152.) 
Pueraria Thunbergiana Benth. (Paohyrhizus T hunbergianus S et Z.) 
Sin: K<>. P. trilobus D.C. has the same Chinese name. It seems 
that both of them are textile plants. 
27. Urbs Ping lo. (prov. Quang si) Conficitur bic pannus 
ex foliis Musarum rubrarum. (p. 145.) 
In the Yi t'ung chi, the great geography of the Ch. Empire, the 
& *# hung tsiao pu (cloth made from the red Musa.) is mentioned 
as manufactured in the prefecture of Ping to. Perhaps the Mtisa coocinea. 
Andr., introduced into European gardens from China in 1792, is meant. 
I am not aware whether the appellation of red Musa could be applied 
to Musa textilis Nees. . 
28. Urbs Cin cbeu (prov. Quang si). Incolae ex herba Yu 
conficiunt pannos, quorum praestantia sericum ipsum superat, 
majorique quam istud in pretium sunt. (p. 146.) 
The plant yu and the fabric manufactured from its fibres seem to be 
unknown to Europeans. In the Yi t'ung chi I find under Sin chou fu 
(vide supra 21) a cloth mentioned there produced which they call St# 
chu pu or m $*# yu lin pu. 
29. Provincia Xan tung (Shan tung). Rarum est, et omnino 
nimium quantum beneficae in earn gentem naturae argumentum, 
filum sericum ibidem in arboribns ac campis sponte sua nasci, 
quod non a domesticis bombycibus, sed a vermibus contexitur 
erucishaud absimilibus, non in globurn aut ovum ductum, sed in 
Iongissimum filum paulatim ex ore emissum, albi coloris, quae 
arbusculis dumisque adhaerentia, atque a vento hue illucque 
agitata colliguntur, atque ex illis, uti ex vera bysso, panni 
conficiuntur serici qui licet rudiores nonnihil sint serico 
domestico, firmitate tamen ac robore superant. (p. 53.) 
Martini alludes here to the wild silkworms feeding on the leaves of 
different oaks and producing the silk from which the so called Shan tung 
Pongee is woven (|||jj j||rJ hien chou in Chinese.) Comp. Dr. Hance’s 
interesting article on Northern Chinese silk worm oaks, Journ. Linn, Soc. 
X, XIII. and Du Halde, la Chine II 207. 
30. Martini explains (p. 39) the method adopted by the 
Chinese in the production of Weeping Willows by bending down 
large branches of the lieu or Willow tree, which generally has 
upright branches, and causing them to take root in the ground. 
