Abstract
THE publication of fascicle 5 of the "Icones Plantarum Sinicarum"brings the total of plates published in this work to two hundred and fifty. The illustrations are in black and white, most plates include analyses and many show both flowers and fruits. One species is figured on each plate and described in the text in English and Chinese. Nearly all the subjects are woody plants (only five herbs have been figured so far), and the large size of the plates (the work is a folio) is a great advantage in that it allows ample material of the plants to be illustrated. The value of the work is enhanced by the fact that many of the plants figured, especially in fascicles 3-5, are species described in recent years, whilst another valuable feature is the figuring in successive plates of all or most of the Chinese representatives of one genus, as, for example, in Carpinus, Tilia and Deutzia. In the first two fascicles the plates are spoilt, to a large extent, by being too heavily inked, but in fascicles 3-5 they are excellently reproduced from drawings (by C. R. Feng) which are both artistic and botanically accurate. The publication forms a valuable work of reference for students of the flora of China, and it is to be hoped that it will be possible for production to continue, despite the unhappy conditions now prevailing in that country.
Icones Plantarum Sinicarum
Hsen-Hsu
Hu
Woon-Young
Chun
Fascicle 5. Edited by. Pp. iv + 50 + plates 201–250. (Peiping: Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, 1937.)
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Icones Plantarum Sinicarum. Nature 142, 977 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142977c0
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