INTO THE FLORA OP CHINA. 
131 
Via (province?) Nha ho in North-Cochinchina. p, 544. 
The country of the Moji (tribe) in the west, p. 679. 
Mountain. Ngicon nhung (Cochinchina) p. 646. 
Sandhills of Son T&onng (Cochinchina) p. 248. 547. 
River Lavus flowing between Cochinchina and Laos. p. 327. 
In 1779 Loureiro proceeded to Canton , where he continued 
his botanical researches during three years. As at that'time 
foreigners living in Canton were not allowed to walk beyond 
the limits of the factories, L. hired a Chinese peasant, ac¬ 
quainted to a certain degree with the medicinal plants of the 
country, to collect such for him. This Chinaman used to 
communicate also the native names of the plants he brought 
in the vernacular Cantonese dialect. But as the information 
thus derived seemed not always to be reliable, L. compared it 
with a Chinese book on Botany, in which he was able to find 
the correct names of the plants used for medical and economic 
purposes, and in his Flora cochinchinensis tried to spell these 
names according to the Mandarin dialect. 
Loureiro seems to have embarked with his botanical treasures 
in 1782. On his way home he visited the island of Mozambique, 
where he made a stay of three months, enriching his herbarium 
with many rare specimens. He states further, that during his 
peregrinations he had improved the opportunity by herborizing 
in Cambodja, Champava, Bengal, Malabar, Sumatra. All the 
plants gathered in those regions he describes also in the FI. 
cochin. 
After having reached his native country L. was taken up 
during several years, in Lisbon, with the preparation of his 
work for publication* In 1788 the M.S. of the Flora coch, written 
in Latin, and arranged according to the Linnaean system, wae 
completed, but the book was not brought out before 1789. Three 
years later WUldenow edited it anew, adding some notes, which 
however throw little light on dubious questions and as ho had 
no opportunity of referring to Loureiro’s herbarium his identic 
fications are uot always happy.* In the following notes, 
quoting Loureiro, I always refer to Willd. edition. 
According to the Catal. Patr. Jes. Sin, Loureiro died in 
1794. But Colmeiro makes him die two years later. 
There is no allusion in L.’s preface to his having belonged 
to the Soc. of the Jesuits. On the title page he styles himself 
only: olim in Cochinchina Catholicae Fidei praeco. But in 
* On p. 458 he identifies Loureiro’s Canvpsis adrepens with Incarvillea 
sinensis. But the former is Bignonia grandiflora and bears no resem¬ 
blance to Incarvillea. 
