EARLY EUROPEAN RESEARCHES 
Mesjpilus oxycantha cheusan. oblongis, mueronatis et serratis 
•foliis, fructu longiore, summis ramulis innascente. P. 216. 
Tab. 453, fig. 3. 
Lcrareiro FI. coch. 392 identifies this with his Mespilus pyracantha 
(see below.) 
Muscus denticulatus minor. Cheusan. Tab. 453. 9. 
lycopodium ? 
III. SWEDISH COLLECTORS OF PLANTS 
IN SOUTH-CHINA, 1751 AND 1766. 
The greater part of the accounts presented in this chapter have 
been borrowed from a book, which bears the following title: 
A VOYAGE TO CHINA AND THE EAST INDIES BY PETER OSBECK 
together with 
A VOYAGE TO SURATTE BY OLOE, TOREEN 
and 
AN ACCOUNT OE THE CHINESE HUSBANDRY BY CAPTAIN CH. ECKEBERG. 
translated from the German by 
JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER.* 
to which are added 
A EAUNULA AND FLORA SINENSIS. 
London 1771. Two volumes. 
3PJEST35R OSBECE, a Swede and a pupil of the great 
Linnaeus, to whom the latter was indebted for the greater part 
of the Chinese plants and animals he has described—was born 
in 1723. In 1750 he set out on a journey to China, as .chaplain 
to a Swedish East Indiaman, the Prince Charles , which left 
Gothenburgh 18 Nov. 1750, and arrived at Cadiz 4 January 
1751. After a stay of 10 weeks they left this place 20 March, 
sailed around the Cape, without landing there, in the second 
half of May. June 12 they passed St. Paul, on July 15 
anchored in the harbour of Angeri (Java, Sundastr.), left 
again on the 17th. Here Osbeck was able to collect some plants. 
On the 25 Aug. 1751 the Prince Charles anchored at Whampoa. 
(near Canton) and remained there more than four months, 
weighing anchor on the 5th Jan. 1752. On the way home 
Osbeck again collected Javanese plants and beasts in New Bay, 
where the Pr. Charles stopped a few days. In April 0. made 
some collections on the island of Ascension and on the 26. 
June 1752 came bake to Gothenburgh. 
* The well known naturalist and traveller, who accompanied Capt. 
Cook on his second circumnavigation of the globe 1772-75. 
