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INTO THE FLORA OF CHINA, 
than new for China and of many of them Linn, had hardly 
seen original specimens from India. There are in his collection 
about 50 (probably more) entirely new plants, 12 of which are 
represented by drawings in his book, viz: 
Tab. 1 Baeckia frutescens. Tab. 6 Trichomanes chinensis . 
Tab. 2 Osbeckia chinensis. Tab. 7 Rhamnns lineatns * * 
Tab. 3 fig. 1 Bteris semipinnata.Toh. 8 Barteria cristata. 
fig. 2 Utricularia bifida. Tab. 9 Gemrdia glutinosa. 
Tab. 4 Bteris vittata. Tab. 10 Oarpesimn abrotanoides , 
Tab. 5 Helicteres angustifolia. Tab. 11 Glerodendronfortimatum. 
Besides dried specimens of plants Osbeck had brought also 
from China many seeds from which Linnaeus succeeded in rais¬ 
ing several new plants. It does not seem, that he had examined 
the whole of Osbeck’s collection, for we meet in Osbeck’s 
narrative some names and descriptions of Chinese plants not 
found in the Spec. Plant. 
LIST CE CHINESE PLANTS KNOWN TO LINNAEUS. 
Forster in compiling his Flora sinensis , or Catalogue of 
Chinese plants (see above.) enumerates all Osbeck’s specimens 
from China (244) and adds the names of 56 more Chinese 
plants known in 1771. In the following list I venture to 
present a more complete list of Linnaean Chinese plants (for 
Forster has overlooked many species) arranged according to 
Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. I always give 
their new names in the system, should the Linnaean name 
have been changed. The plants collected by Osbeck I mark 
with Osb. As in his narrative (Engl, transl.) the accounts of 
Chinese plants are found in the first volume from p. 208 to the 
end, and in the second from p. 1 to 17, I shall quote only the 
pages not the volumes.* 
DICOTYLEDONS. 
1. Clematis chinensis, resembling CL vitalba. Danes isl. 
Canton. Osb. 329. 393. 
* Abbreviations of the titles of some botanical works, to which I §hall 
have to refer frequently in the subsequent pages : 
G. P.=Bentham and Hooker, Genera Plantarum. 
D. C.—De Candolle’s Prodromus Syst. nat. veg. 
Kth. =Kunth’s Enumeratio Plantarum. 
• Lour.=Loureiro’s Flora cochinehinensis 1793 (edit. Willdenow.) 
FI. hgk.=Bentham’s Flora hongkongensis. 1861. 
Add. FI. hgk.=Dr. Hance’s Supplement to the Flora hongk. Journ, 
Linnaean Soc. XIII. 
