Abstract: According to preliminary statistics, there are 26 276~27 268 species in 3 200 genera of 337 families (among them 191 ~l95 species in 36 genera of 10 families belong to Gymnospermae, 4 493~4 661 species in 679 genera of 57 families belong to Monocotyledoneae) in China. In order to provide elementary data for the intensive floristic study from China, the areal~types, arrange- ment in sequence from big to small, endemism of the families, genera and species in seed plants from China are displayed and analysed respectively. Moreover, various floristic or concrete re-gions are compared at the species level in this paper.

Key words: Seed plants from China