into the floea of china. 
119 
Thea Bohea. Linn. Chin. pi. 16. 
Ixora coceined. 1. c. 118. 
Rhamnus lineatus. 1. c. 48. 
Baechea fruteseens. 1. c. 85. 
Triumfetta Barthramia 1. c. 31. 
TJrena procumbens. 1. c. 24. 
Barleria cristata. 1. c. 180. 
Hedyotis fruticosa. D. IV. 123. 
Planta dubia. Spermacoce ? 
Sin apis brassicata. Linn. Chin. 
Polygonum ehmense. 1. c. 212. 
Torenia asiatica. 1. c. 172. 
Aralia chinensis, sed tota glabra. 
1. c. 109. 
Verbesina calendulacm, 1. c. 135. • 
Gucurbhtg citrulhis. 1. c. 101. 
Heckysarum biarticulaium. l.c.68. 
Tamar indus indica. 1. e. 1 79. 
Citrus decumana., 1. c. 41. 
Citrus: aurantium. 1. e. 34. 
Bromelia Ananas. 
pi. 110. 
In my notice of the services rendered by Swedish naturalists 
with respect to the investigation of Chinese Botany, I ought 
not to omit mentioning the name of MAGMUS VOW 
XiLGOEXLSTl&OXalME? born in 1696. He was an ardent 
naturalist and a friend of the Great Linnaeus. His position as 
Director of the Swedish East India Comp, at Gothenburg 
enabled him to procure many rare objects of natural history 
from India and China, which he used to present to Linnaeus. 
He died in Gothenburg in 1759. Linnaeus dedicated the genus 
Lagerstroemia to hisfriend. Toreen in his letters repeatedly 
speaks of Lagerstroem. 
There is in Linn. Amoen. acad. IV. p. 230—266 a paper 
by J. L. Odhello, written in 1754, devoted to the Chinensia 
Lagerstroemiana, The author reports, that Lagerstroem had 
obtained from India not only dried specimens of plants, but had 
also succeeded in introducing living plants from those distant 
countries into the botanical garden of Upsala. He enumerates 
namely : Cocos, Phoenix, Cycas, Saccharum Pentapetes, various 
species of Hibiscus, Sanguis Draconis, Bambu, Conyza, Amaran- 
thus, Arum chinense (I do net know to what plant the last 
name refers. There is no Chinese Arum in Linn. Spec. Plant.) 
Besides this, Lagerstroem is stated to have been possessed of a 
Botanicon chinense, written in Chinese characters, in 36 volumes, 
of which 2 volumes contained engravings of plants, beasts, and 
minerals. (This was probably the well known Pew ts'ao hang mu.) 
Lagerstroem had moreover received from China a collection of 
about 1000 Chinese drugs. 
IV. EARLY RESEARCHES INTO THE FLORA 
OF PEKING. 
Let us return again to the Jesuit missionaries and continue 
to illustrate the services they have rendered in extending our 
knowledge of the vegetable products of China. 
