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Evidentiary scope
Licent's form gives the station, the line for the habitat, as Chemin de fer (railway): the plant grew by the railway at Makiapou, in northern Shansi, in July 1914. A railway line is waste ground outside cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the label; the label does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
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- Licent's form (printed, completed by hand and typed), with a faint oval stamp of the Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho (Laboratoire d'Histoire naturelle, Mission du Tchely S.E., S.J.): HERBIER … 231 / Station Chemin de fer / Localité Makiapou / Date 20 VII 14 / Chansi N / 20 VII 14 (typed, repeated).
- Museum label. Cannabis sativa L. / stamp Det. Handel-Mazzetti 1928 / R. P. LICENT. — Chine Septentrionale. / Reçu le 24 Août 1922.
- Tianjin sheet (TIE 00004143), read twice, independently, from the Chinese Virtual Herbarium's image (TIE 00004143, 1,000 × 1,659 pixels). Printed HERBIER form of the Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho: 231 (a second number, 1451, above the frame) / Famille Cannabinée (Urticacée / Nom scientifique Cannabis sativa. L. / vulgaire Chanvre. / Station Chemin de fer (typed) / Localité Makiapou (typed) / Date 20 VII 14 (typed). Barcode TJNHM HERBARIUM (TIE). The readings agree, except that one takes the month for VIII, the numerals being compressed; the Paris label's VII is kept. The sheet names no collector.
Georeferencing
No point is given. Makiapou was not found in northern Shanxi under the spellings Majiapu, Majiabao and Ma-chia-pu or the characters 马家堡, 马家铺, 马家埔 and 马家浦, in Wikidata or OpenStreetMap. A village 马家堡 in the former Shuiposi township of Datong (Wikidata Q14018133) has no point, and no railway station of that name was found on the line from Peking to Suiyuan through Datong, whose section to Datong opened in January 1914 (Chinese Wikipedia). The station of exactly that name, Majiapu, was in Peking (Wikidata Q163962), not in Shanxi. The province field takes Shanxi from the label's Chansi N.
Editorial treatment
Classification. On Licent's printed form the Station line is the habitat line, and it reads Chemin de fer.
Date. 20 VII 14 is 20 July 1914, written by hand and typed again on the form.
Collector. He is Émile Licent (1876–1952), a French Jesuit and the founder of the Musée Hoangho Paiho at Tientsin, who began in 1914 an exploration of north China from Tientsin; by 1932 about 4,100 of his plants had gone to the Paris museum (Fournier 1932; French Wikipedia). The sources read do not give his route in 1914. The museum label calls him R. P. Licent (Révérend Père); the collector field keeps the catalogue's Licent, and the prose links Émile Licent.
Determination. The stamp Det. Handel-Mazzetti 1928 gives a surname only. It fits Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (1882–1940), the Austrian botanist who travelled in China from 1914 to 1918 and then worked on the Chinese flora in Vienna (English Wikipedia; Harvard botanist index), but no source read records him determining Licent's plants, so the name stays in plain text.
Two sheets, one accession. The Paris and Tianjin sheets share the number, the station, the place and the date on the museum's form. The Tianjin sheet names no collector; Licent's name comes from the Paris label. The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its images under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so its sheets are cited here and not shown.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 14:28, 13 October 2026 (+07)