IXTd THE FLORA OV CklNA. 
129 
All that I can gather with respect to Sonnerat’s voyage to 
China is on the title of this book. The text contains no allusion 
to his journey but consists of several articles on the countries 
he visited and the natural object^ he collected there. It may be 
assumed however, that Canton was the place he visited in China. 
In the 2d volume p. 222-248 we find descriptions of plants 
with good engravings. Only 3 Chinese plants are there 
represented, viz: 
Litchi chinensis. p. 230. tab. 129. Nephelium Litchi. Camb. 
Coohia punctata, p. 231. tab. 130. Glausena Wampi. Oliv. FI. 
hgk. 50. 
Mar sana buxifolia, Buis de Chine, p. 245. tab. 139. Murray a 
exotica. L. FI. hgk. 50. 
Besides this Lamarck noticed some plants gathered by Sonne* 
rat in China. I name those which I have happened to find men¬ 
tioned. 
Uvaria odorata. Lam. I. 595. Unona odorata Dunal. Alanguilan 
de la Chine. Sonnerat. 
Melastoma repens. Lam. IV. 54. Flor. hgk. 113. 
Ixora chinensis. Lam. III. 344. 
Capsicum sinense. Lam. V. 327. 
Bignonia chinensis. Lam. I. 423. Tecoma grandiflora Del. 
Phyllanthus lucens. Lam. (Poir.) V. 296. Andrachne fruticosa : 
L. FI. hgk. 313. 
Phyllanthus villosus. Lam. (Poir.) V. 297. 
Adiantum flabellatum. Lam. I. 42. Flor. hongk. 447. 
Pteris crenata. Lam. (Poir.) V. 715. FI. hgk. 448. 
VI. LOUREIRO. 
We come now to the most conspicuous among the Jesuit 
missionaries, who have devoted themselves to the investiga¬ 
tion of Chinese botany. I shall attempt presently to give an 
account of LOUREIRO’S FLORA COCHIN- 
CHINENSIS, a valuable monument of conscientious 
labour and considerable research. Although it deals properly, 
as the title intimates, with the Flora of Cochinchina, there 
are also described in it a considerable number of Chinese plants. 
Let me introduce the subject with a short biographical notice 
derived principally from the preface to the book, written by 
the author himself. I have also consulted Colmeiro's History 
of Botany in Spain and Portugal 1858. (in Spanish.) 
Ioannis de Loureiro was a Portuguese. According to Colmei- 
ro he was born in 1715 and proceeded in 1735 as a missionary 
to Cochinchina. But from Loureiro’s own account we infer 
