Flora of Kwangtung and Hongkong/Extent of information
Extent of information.—The relative amount of attention that each part of the province has received may be gathered from the following comparison between the numbers of records from each, which are quoted in the following pages. Out of each 100 records, 23, on an average, are found to refer to Hongkong (chiefly from Ford, Hance, Tutcher), 15 to the New Territory (Ford, Dunn, Tutcher), 11 to the Swatow hinterland (Dunn), 10 to the Lienchow River (Ford, B. C. Henry), five each to Canton (Hance, Sampson), Lofoushan (Ford chiefly), N. River (Sampson, Ford), W. River (Hance) and Macao (Vachell), four to Hoifung (Dunn's Chinese collector), and 12 to other parts.