To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cmnxa Dany NeW:
1 with to supplement and correct my" carlier letter to you, which was written rather hurriedly. now find that there are more than one Chinese names for the plant.
Chalmers in his Cantonese Dic-
(AMMEZE -) and the same name is Came gives Foong Che Fa given by da Silva in his "Botanica should he much obliged if you, or one of your readers, would be Kind enough to quote the original expounds wf the correct theory, and further inform me whether there is written treatise on the subject Excusing myself for any trouble lor inconvenience, and thanking you for the use of your valued space, Tam, ete.
Shanghai, May 19, 19) Harp.
Hemeling gives us Hsi Fan Lien (HRFM) for "passion flower" and uses this for the species with Locat, Chinese, with the support of the Chinese General Chamber of the addition of the usual character Commerce, are once more agitating fo", He further gives a list of against the existence of the Ming alternatives Feng Che Hus if lottery in the International obviously the sam the Settlement, says the Chinese prose, Cantonese-Chuan Mein Lien ¢4 They propose to petition the Coune and Lien|cil for the immediate suppression of this evi Dunne and Tutcher (Kew Boule Additional Series No. X two species of Passiiora indigenous} South China, one of them. foctida is a form of "Love in a Heal It With Mist" so. well known at home.
T am trying to trace the plant in Porter-Smith and Brestschneider, but have so far failed to get on the ight track, The character Feng or Fong is} variously given Under the former Giles (No. 3565) "gives us "The. Maple, Liquidambar Formosana ete." This can have nothing to do with the passion flower except that there 2 certain resemblance inthe leaves. Chinese Botany is _very disconcerting as the classification is capricious.
Tam, ete, Pantie W. Goroarse
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.