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DR. HERKLOTS ON LOCAL FLOWERS.
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.
ADDRESS IN UNION CHURCH)
IN KOWLOON.
When we think of flowers in Eng- innd we picture a few species in masses,bluebells, cowslips, prim- roses, anemones, buttercups, daisles, and perhaps some dozen other com- mon aperles which occur over grent areas during the spring and sum- iner months. Such masses of her-
SOVIET BOGEY.
FEARS FOR FAR EASTERN TERRITORY.
Riga, Apr. 5. "Cortain Imperialistic Powers" A most interesting talk on Hong-baccous plants are rarely found in are scheming to wrent the Far kong flowers was given to members the tropics and are much more Eastern territory from the Soviet, of the Kowloon Union Church characteristic of the temperate declared M. Molotov in a speech Young People's Society (Senlor zones of the earth. If, instead of at Moscow, adding that it was necessary to prepare Section) last night by Doctor thinking of herbs we think of vitally G. A. C. Herklets, M.Sc., Ph. D.shrubs, then we at once perceive against the Powers, who planned be to create a White Guard buffer The speaker showed a number of the fundamental difference
and tropical state as a stabbing point for fur- Inntern alldes illustrating different tween temperate
We think species of Hongkong orchids, one vegetation.
Other attacks against the Soviet.- blackthorn, privet, Renter. of our strangest and rarest plants, hawthorn, mangrove swamp scenes, and roses, crab apple, and guelder rose,
be difficult different flowering shrubs com- but it would
Hame twenty kinds of flowering mon, to the Colony's hillsides,
shrubs which in England may be found in bloom in masses.
Dr. Herklots enid: Doubtless many of those who have come here this evening think that it must be a very easy matter for me to give #talk on the wild flowers of the Colony. But the task is not quite as simple as it at first appears,
Three difficulties are particularly obvious. Firstly, the names of the flowers are neither familiar to us nor are they easy to remember, for though our local species have numes, yet, for the most part, they posseus only long double-barrelled Latin names with no simple English equivalents.
that the names
over the whole
to
Lantern Stiles.
pre-
These
I amused myself in particular with the snakes and orchids, and of Inte with flowering shrubs. As a Seasonal Differences.
result, many of the sides which I 1 could am going to show, are those of local Here, in Hongkong. easily make a list of 100 shrubs orchide of which we have now some In Eng- species under observation. I with attractive flowers. land we associate the months of wish here to acknowledge the ablo May and June in particular with assistance of Mr. V. H. Jarmit the flowers of the countryside. In and of Mr. Younguage, from whose the tropics no one month possesses negatives a number of these lantern a monopoly of the flowers. True, slides have been prepared. in Hongkong, on the edge of the tropics, seasonal differences can be
The first 18 slides are of different noticis, but even herr, January and February, for example, are the species of Hongkong orchids, must- of our mostly common species which may be Secondly, the great majority of months when some
found on our hillsides and leal plants do not grow in England beautiful species blossom. and they have no familiar relatives These facts, that the plants are cipices. Then follow seven slides are illustrating one of our strongest with which they can be comparal. tnfamiliar. The converse is equally true that difficult. that the Bowering period and rarest plants, the insect eating welve pitcher plant, Nepenthes phyliam- Europead plants do not grow wild is spread here in South China. The word months, have led to this quite in-phare. Eight photographs of man-
grove swamp scenes follow. Mefantoma is no harder to rememeurrect belief that Hongkong is illustrate the extraordinary method her than the word Anemone but no pour place for flowers. Melastomas grow in England and Two other factors have great adopted by certain of the shrubs to on the tree and the Kerminates Anemones in Hongkong, and significance. There is a very large propagate their species. The seed though Melastoma is very much population in Hongkong and Rowling does not fall off until a root or more inches has been commoner here than the anemone in floon, equivalent almost to that of of six Burland it is known to but few, Leeds and Bradford added together, developed. When the seedling falls It is not, therefore, surprising that this root sticks in the mud, either any of the most beautiful species below the parent tree, or is carried This fact, of the very gent dif-are not to be found commonly withi Crence between European plants) in a hundred yards of our front away by the tide to be washed up and Hongkong pints, makes the door! The botanist must be will-on a distant bank and become fixed preparation of a popular talk anjing to go ufieki, to leave the beaten local plants difficult. The third track, to climb the shape and scale. ang is that there are no popular the precipire if he, or she, wishes books on our flowers to which I can to see the best of Hongkong's flora. refer you. There is the Hongkong Naturalist, which some of you I hope soe, but it will be years before we have finished deserthing in that journal our familiar species.
Bearing these diffenities in mind I sincerely trust that you will for give me if my lecture is scrappy and pately, and appears to be without any continuous theme.
Because the local flowers are un- familiar to us, and because shrubby
This introduction has been long beautiful flowers don't pick them plants are more abundant than her-
accous forms, many people think but I wish to bring home to all, the all and then throw them away by roadside. Remember that that this is a poor place for flawers. problems and difficulties which con- the This is not true. Actually China is front the amateur botanist here in others also like to see the beauties of nature. Several of our species The richest country in the world Hongkong
When came here, some three are strictly-protected, c.g., all the for beautiful flowers, and many, very many indeed, of the flowers and a half years ago, I was amazed Rhododendrons (Azaleas),
of orchids the which grace our gardens and con- at the paucity of information avail- chinensis, and servatories in Europe and America, able about our natural history. have their origin in China.
European and Local Plants.
Hongkong Rich in Species. Hongkong is very rich in species, very much richer than any area in Bagland of similar extent; in fact Jar richer than the whole of the United Kingdom, this may sur prise many but is nevertheless true,
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The last ten slides are of dif ferent Howering shrubs to be found commonly on our hillsides. They Include the alien Lautang and native species, Uvaria, Rhodomyrtus, The other factor is that of tem- Roses, Rhododendron, Melastoma, perature. Very few people herealussdenda, and Pavette. ever tramp the hillsides in May,
In conclusion, may I ask all to June, July, and August, and even in' April and September the number support Mr. Green, the Superinten- of walkers I meet on the mountains dent of the Hongkong Botanic Gar- is very small. If, during half the deus, in his diffieslt, and often year, people are not looking for thankless task of protecting our flowers, it is uol surprising to hear flowering shrubs and plants from wanton gathering. If you see them say that they don't exist.
Izora
No bamboo orchid Arundina chinensis, one seemed to know or care any- and the buttercup orchid Spathog thing about the varied forms of life lottis pubescens, thut surrounded them. A few of
us
more decided to tackle the
At the conclusion of Dr. Herk- popular groups of animals and lots' very interesting exhibition of plants. Major Hutson tackled the slides, a hearty vote of thanks was birds, and largely as a result of his passed, on the proposition of Mr. pioneer work, we know some 150 E. J. Othen, seconded by Miss
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