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Farges s.n., Chengkou (s.d.) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The printed label names the district and the collector. It gives no date, altitude, habitat, use or note on cultivation. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.

Label reading

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Museum label (printed): HERB. MUS. PARIS. / Plantes de CHINE. (Su-tchuen oriental.) / District de Tchen-kéou-tin. / M. l'abbé Farges. No number, no date, no other label.

Georeferencing

Tchen-kéou-tin is read as Chengkou Ting (城口廳, Wikidata Q113492627), the Qing unit whose name the present Chengkou County of Chongqing carries (Q1070004); the identification rests on the name, and the old unit's extent need not have been exactly the county's. The point 31.89, 108.73 is the middle of Chengkou County's administrative area in OpenStreetMap (relation 2089846, about 3,263 km²), checked to fall inside it. It is an area point for the district, not the place the plant was gathered. Basis: district point. Uncertainty: about 33 km.

Editorial treatment

Title and date. The sheet carries no number, so the title takes s.n. and the present-day name of the district, Chengkou. No date is on the sheet; Farges collected in the district from 1892 and died in 1912, and the title takes (s.d.).

Collector. He is Paul Guillaume Farges (1844–1912), a priest of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, who explored north-eastern Szechwan, particulièrement le pauvre district de Tchenkeou (Fournier 1932), sent consignments to the Paris museum from 1892, and was chaplain at the Chongqing hospital from 1903 (Fournier 1932; Harvard botanist index, which gives his Paris holdings as received from 1892 to 1904). The label calls him M. l'abbé Farges; the collector field takes the catalogue's P. G. Farges, and the prose links Paul Guillaume Farges.

Source discrepancies

The catalogue gives the name only as Cannabis L.; no name is written on the sheet.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 14:25, 13 October 2026 (+07)