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Evidentiary scope
This is an object rather than a field gathering: Kew's catalogue names a donor and an entry number, and no collector, no collection date and no place finer than North Formosa. It documents hemp used for making bags, from northern Taiwan, by 1882. The catalogue gives no habitat and no note on cultivation, so the accession is classified Other; no conservation priority is assigned.
Kew publishes no image of this object, and GBIF carries none.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The geography line reads North Formosa, the northern part of the island of Taiwan under its historical name. It has no boundary, spans several of today's counties and cities, and the catalogue names no place within it. The donor was the British consul at Tamsui, in the north of the island, but the catalogue does not say that the material came from there.
Editorial treatment
The entry book number is not a collection date. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, running in a series each year. This object's number, 139.1882, dates its arrival at Kew. The collection date field is blank, and the accession carries no date; the sample was gathered no later than 1882, the limit the title gives.
The determination stops at family. Kew's plant name is 153.04 CANNABACEAE, with no genus, and GBIF determines the object to family as well. The catalogue calls the material hemp, and the two other samples entered with it are determined to Cannabis. The scientific-name field gives the family, the rank Kew gives.
The use is the catalogue's. For making bags (Not clothes) is part of Kew's name for the object and is quoted as it stands.
Donor. Kew's donor field reads Tamsui HM Consul and its donor note Watters T; the two other samples of the entry name Watters T and Watters T, HM Consul. The full name is not given. The collector field is empty, because Kew's help page uses the donor field for specimens that passed through a second person or institution.
Country. Kew leaves the country undefined. Its geography line, North Formosa, is in present-day Taiwan, which the country field gives.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 15:18, 13 October 2026 (+07)