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This name was given by Osbeck and is not found in Lin. Sp. pi. Refcz 
described tbe plant under the same name in his Obs, bot (1780). D. 0, I. 
3. According to Maxim. Dec. XX probably the same as Cl'- terniflora. D. C. 
2. Xllicium anisatum. Lin (Forster.) 
Star Anis was first brought to Europe from the Phillipines in 158,8, 
Linnaeus had hardly seen a specimen of the Chinese plant producing 
Star Anis. 
3. Lan fa or Leen fa Chinensium. Canton. Osb. 209.— Qnao 
or Laen gao (Hymphaea Helumbo L.) white roots of the* 
thickness of carrots, but longer, articulated and hollow inside. 
Poor people eat them raw* but they are not very palatable. 
Osb. 3i0. 
lelumbium speciosum. Willd, Sin j j|f ^ lin Jh, the roots jiH 
Im ngau.* 
4. Fuma.ria spedabilis. Lin. (Amoen. acad II. (1751) and 
VII. (1768; drawing) described as a Siberian plant, but Gme- 
lin, from whom Linnaeus draws, states clearly that the plant 
had been received fromChina. This is XMcesitra spectabilis* 
Miq. It grows wild in the Peking mountains. 
5. Chinese Cabbage (Brassica chinensis. L.), does not 
form heads. In Chinese hay lan. Another so'rt called pach-so- 
a with bulbotis root is spld here (Canton) likewise. Osb. 313. 
The Chinese names intended arc probably ^ j|| Icai lan and 
pah sung. Lmnaeus states, that his plants had been raised from seeds 
brought by Osbeck. 
6. Brasslca violaeea, Lin. This plant, which Linnaeus 
describes as a Chinese plant, is only known, it seems, from his 
specimens. 
7. Oriental Mustard (Sinapis orientalis* Lin.) Osb. 309. 
Known to Tournefort from the Levant. Linnaeus does not mention it 
for China. 
8. Sinapis chinensis. Lin. This plant was first noticed 
by Boerhave, who in 1710 received the seeds from Batavia,. 
D. C I. 219, and Lour. 485, mean that it is rather a variety of 
the next. 
9. Sinapis juncea. Lin. Asia, China (Lin.) Cultivated 
in Europe since 1710. 
10. Sinapis brassicata. Lip. China. According to Lour. 
485 also a variety of S. juncea. 
11. Raphanus saiivus. Lin. var oleifera. D. C. I. 228, H*. 
chinensis annuus olelferus. Lin. Seeds of this had been 
brought from China by Capt. Eckeberg (s. further on.) 
# As Osbeck gives (or tries to give) the Chinese names in the Canton 
dialect I shall write the Chinese souiids according tp the same dialect. 
