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Partial funding of the Flora of China project
has been provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grants BSR-8906215,
BSR-9201378, DEB 9626806, DEB 0072682, DEB-0101991, DEB-0343439, DEB-0514279),
the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Starr Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the Stanley
Smith Horticultural Trust.
The following botanists are warmly thanked for their
reviews of the manuscripts: Mark Coode (K; Elaeocarpaceae), Alisa
Grabovskaya-Borodina (LE; Balsaminaceae), Tung-Yu Hsieh (National Chung-Hsing Uni versity, Taichung; Actinidiaceae), and Leena Phuphathanaphong (BKF; Malvaceae).
The regional advisors, Eona M. M. Aitken (E), Rudolf
V. Kamelin (LE), Kai Larsen (AAU), Jin Murata (TI), Alexei K. Skvortsov (MHA),
and Willem J. J. O. de Wilde (L), were asked to review the accounts in this volume.
Valuable nomenclatural and distributional comments on taxa occurring in China and neighboring countries were received. Alisa E. Grabovskaya-Borodina (LE) and
Ching-I Peng (彭镜毅;
HAST) provided valuable assistance.
The directors, curators, and librarians of the
following institutions are warmly
thanked for their continued assistance in sending loans of
specimens and/or providing library or herbarium facilities to the authors and
editors of the Flora of China: A, B, BM, CANT, CAS, CDBI, E, F, GH,
HAST, HIB, HNWP, IBSC, K, KUN, LE, MO, NAS, NY, P, PE, S, SCFI, SZ, TAI, TI,
UPS, US, W, WU, XJA, XJU, and YUKU.
Victoria C. Hollowell, Beth Parada, and Barb Mack, of
Missouri Botanical Garden Press, edited and facilitated publication of
relevant preliminary papers in Novon and played an important role in
finalizing the production of this volume. Amy McPherson (Botanical Society of
America) served as Managing Editor and Diana Gunter served as Associate Editor
for a number of the papers in Novon. Thanks are also due to the Editors-in-Chief
of Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, previously Yang Qiner (杨亲二), currently
Chen Zhiduan
(陈之端)
and Qiu Yinlong (仇寅龙),
for editing and facilitating publication of relevant papers in that journal.
Many other persons have helped at various stages of
the Flora of China project or contributed directly to the production of
this volume. These include: He Si (何思), Robert Magill, Candy
McCandliss, Olga Martha Montiel, Orbélia R.
Robinson, Song Hong (宋宏),
and the late Zhu Guanghua (朱光华).
To all of these, the project is most grateful.
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