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As a result of its variety in the environment
China is a country rated rich in the world in respect of its plant resources.
Abort 30 thousand species are from the high plant distributed in different
areas and composed of different vegetation. The deciduous or evergreen
coniferous or broad-leaf forests are in most parts of China. There are
areas of shrubby vegetation, meadows, steppes, desert and cold desert
in alpine or or subalpine parts, especially in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,
of N., N.-W. and S.-W. China, and savanna in the small regional areas
of S.-W. and S. China.
Also there are regional aquatic and marsh vegetation's at lower levels
or in lakes and rivers. There are many regional and endemic plants in
China, but many more are the wide-distributional species that also distribute
abroad, as in world-wide, Eurasia-a, E. Asia-N. America, S. Asia-Australia,
Asia-Africa or Pan-tropic distributions. About 1/10 species of high plants
and a few low plants in China have been used medicinally and there are
mow about 400 species used in common drugs.
Contents
1. Foreword
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. Significance of Plant Taxonomy and Other Branches of Botany, such as
Plant Geography, plant Ecology and Plant Chemistry in Researching into
the Medicinal Plants
5. Plant Morphological or Taxonomic Terms and Diagrams, Concerned with
the Materia Medica in Identifying the Medicinal Plants
6. A Sketch of Classification of Medicinal Plants
(1) General Survey of Medicinal Plants from SPOROPHYTA
(2) Medicinal Plants from SPERMATOPHYTA
7. On the Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants in Clinical Practice
or the Traditional Uses Among the people in China
8. Acknowledgements
9. References
10. On the Author, Dr., Prof. Ling Yeou-ruenn
11. Index
12. Appendix: Accounts for the Medicinal Plants from Spermatohyta in China
13. Plate
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