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kept by the Academy of Lisbon, but in 1808, when Napoleon 
I. had taken possession of Portugal a part of the herbarium 
was transferred to Paris, where it still exists in the Museum 
d’hist.-nat. as Mr. Decaisne has kindly informed me. My 
late friend Mr. D. Hanbury gives the following account with 
respect to Loureiro’s herbai’ium. (Science Papers 98) M. 
Pereira Da Costa of Lisbon had informed him, that the 
herbarium in question had never been at the Academy; it was 
supposed to have formerly belonged to the Museu da Ajuda; 
but upon the removal of that establishment to the Academy, 
no trace of it could be discovered. 
A great number of new plants have been described by 
Loureiro. Among the new Genera he has proposed, the following 
30 have been ascertained and retained in Bentham and Hooker’s 
(or Endlicher’s) Genera Plantarum. 
Aerides. 
Dichroa. 
Osmanthus. 
Aglaja. 
Enhydra. 
Phajus. 
Argyreia. 
Enkianthus. 
Rhynchosia. 
Baccaurea. 
Eibraurea. 
Salomonia. 
Blastus. 
Grona. 
Sarcodium. 
Bragantia. 
Helicia. 
Stephania. 
Centipeda. 
Homonoia. 
Streblus. 
Coleus. 
Limacia. 
Striga. 
Cyathula. 
Mallotus. 
Trema. 
Derris. 
Mazus. 
Triphasia. 
The total 
number of plants described 
in Loureiro’s 
cochin, is 1257 of which 36 must be deducted as having been 
gathered in India, Sumatra, Mozambique. Of the remaining 
1221 he enumerates 976 for Cochinchina and of these, 294 he 
had also gathered in China. As found only in China he 
mentions 245 spec. Thus the total number of Chinese plants 
observed by Lour, is 539. Of 341 of these China in general is 
given as habitat. With respect to the rest he indicates the 
habitat precisely, viz. 
Canton and Macao 193 plants. 
Southern China in general 2. 
Province of Yunnan 1. Amomum, medium, p. 5. 
Mountains of West-China 1. Nardus indica. p. 57. 
North-China 15 species. These plants or accounts of them 
had probably been sent to Loureiro from Peking by the Jesuits 
there (Incarville ? Cibot P) 
