MR. BUNZO HAYATA ON JUNIPERUS TAXIFOLIA. 89 
Note on Juniperus taxifolia, Hook. & Arn. By Buszo Havara (Tokyo). 
(Communicated by W. Borrixa HEwsrEY, F.R.S., F.L.8.) 
(PLATE 7.) 
(Read 3rd December, 1908.] 
Tug object of the present paper is to give a full description and illustration 
of this interesting species and to terminate the confusion of identification, 
due to the imperfect original description. The present Juniperus was first 
described by Hooker and Arnott in * Dotany of Beechey's Voyage, p. 271, 
as early as 1841, the authors basing their description upon a specimen 
collected in the Bonin Islands. 
So far as I am aware, no complete account has ever been given of this 
Juniperus. It has been recorded from the Bonin, the Loo-Choo Islands, and 
some parts of China. I have, however, wondered if this subtropical Juniperus 
had reached, through the Loo-Choo islands, as far north as China, Therefore, 
I have been longing to examine the Chinese specimens referred to this species. 
Fortunately enough, I have enjoyed the opportunity of examining the Chinese 
plant which was recorded under the name of J. taxifolia. The specimens in 
my hands are two—one of them was sent to Dr. Н. Shirasawa from the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1903 ; the other was collected by Mr. A. 
Henry, and contributed by him to the Herbarium of the Botanical Institute 
of Tokyo. The former is labelled as * E. Н. Wilson, W. China, Changyang 
(Hupeh), No. 425," and the latter as “ A. Henry, Prov. Hupeh, No. 2876 A." 
Both specimens were referred to J. tavifolia by the late eminent authority 
Dr. M. T. Masters, in the Journal of Botany, xli. p. 207, and in the Journal 
of the Linnean Society, xxvi. p. 543, and xxxvii. p. 413. On examining 
these specimens, I have found that they are altogether different from the 
Bonin Juniperus in the shape of leaves, cones, and male flowers. I have no 
Chinese specimen bearing female flowers. In the Chinese Juniperus the 
leaves are very acute or even acerose, the male flowers are rather short, the 
anthers are sessile or stipitate and irregularly arranged, the appendices of 
the connectives are inconspicuous or sometimes obsolete, and the fruits bear 
pointed vestiges of the innermost bracts. In the Bonin Juniperus the leaves 
are obtuse, the male flowers are much longer, the anthers are sessile, never 
stipitate, regularly arranged, the appendices of the connectives are very clearly 
seen, and the fruits bear rounded vestiges of the innermost bracts, and usually 
also of the bracts of the next series. Оп account of these differences, 
I think the Chinese Juniperus is not J. taxifolia, and must receive a new 
name. But at present I am not in a position to describe the Chinese species, 
as I have not yet a perfect specimen of it. 
* Gordon, ‘The Pinetum, ed. 3, p. 139; Beissner, ‘Handbuch der Nadelholzkunde,’ p. 131. 
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