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ning of the last century has probably also been introduced by the 
missionaries. Tournefort, who first described this plant in the 
Memoirs of the Acad, of Paris, 1705, p. 264, under the name 
of Garyophyllus chinensis, states that Abbe Bignon had received 
(seeds of) it from China about 3 years earlier. 
It is merely for the sake of completeness in illustrating the 
botanical literature with respect to China, that I mention 
here two volumes of colored drawings of Chinese plants 
published by Bud’kos, physician in ordinary to King Stanislas. 
1. Collection precieuse et enluminee des Fleurs qui se cultivent 
dans les jardins de la Chine. Paris 1776, in folio, 100 plates. 
2. Herbier ou Collection des Plantes medicinales de la Chine, 
d’apres un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la 
bibliotheque de bEmpereur de la Chine. 100 plates. 
These drawings with the Chinese names of the respective 
plants added (not in Chinese characters.) have been copied 
from some Chinese collection of pictures Sent by the mis¬ 
sionaries and have no claim to any botanical value. The 
medicinal plants especially are very badly represented. The 
other volume with ornamental plants shows more correct 
drawings. 
Buc’hoz was a very prolific botanical author. But his publica¬ 
tions are not entitled to serious attention. Pritzel in his The¬ 
saurus botanicus, after having enumerated B.’s works states: 
Catalogus noster partem solummodo parvam innumerabilium 
operum miserrimi compilatoris continet, in cujus ignominiam 
l’Heritier Buchoziam foetidam condidit et qui per semiseculum 
(1758-—1$07.) ultra 500 volumina consarcinavit. 
The plant Pritzel alludes to is Serissa foetida. Comm, 
Bnchozia coprosmoides. 1’Her. See above Loureiro’s plants 278. 
We have thus in the preceding pages endeavoured to give a 
general review of the early knowledge acquired by European 
naturalists into the flora of China, and have also successively 
enumerated all Chinese plants which have come under the 
notice of European botanists up to about the end of the last 
century. Although the materials for pursuing this line of 
investigation and for bringing the historical account up to the 
present day have been accumulated by £he author, he must 
now take leave of the reader, not being in the position at 
present to work up a treatise which would probably occupy 
twice as many pages as the present essay. 
