INTRODUCTION 3 



collection only in the Herbarium at Tokyo. Moreover, as a considerable 

 number of Chinese plants are represented in the Herbarium at Kew and 

 also in that at Dahlem, and as the type specimens of FRANCHET are especially 

 preserved in the Herbarium at Paris, and those of MAXIMOWICZ at St. 

 Petersburg, I thought it very necessary for my work to see all the plants 

 represented in the principal herbaria of the West. 



It was my great good fortune that I was given an opportunity of 

 visiting these different herbaria, in order to make an exhaustive 

 comparison of my materials with the collections preserved in them. With 

 this intention, I first went to Kew taking all the materials with me. 

 There I pursued my work with specimens of the floras to which the 

 flora of Formosa is more or less related. The comparison made in most 

 cases, was confined to the flora of Asiatic regions, especially of China, 

 Korea, India, the Himalayas, and the Malay peninsula and archipelago ; 

 but in some cases it was extended to Australia, the Arctic and Antarctic 

 regions, Europe, Africa, America, and even to Polynesia. I found that 

 many of the species in my collections are represented in the Chinese 

 herbarium at Kew, and also among the specimens from other regions. At 

 the same time, I found also that the greater part of my materials are not 

 yet represented at Kew, and that in all probability they are species not 

 yet described. After finishing my work at Kew, 15 I went to the Herbarium 

 at Paris, in order to see the type specimens of Chinese plants mainly 

 described by FRANCHET. Later my work took me to the Herbarium at 

 Dahlem, where are preserved many collections of Asiatic flora. My 

 purpose in going to Dahlem was to see especially the specimens mentioned 

 in Prof. DIELS' " Die Flora von Central Chiua." 2) In Dalileni, as in Paris, 

 I devoted myself to making notes of the specimens preserved there, as I 

 had not brought my materials with me. I especially devoted myself to 



D During my stay at Kew, I was away from my work for a little more than a week, when 

 I went to Brussels to take put in the International Botanical Congress, then being held 

 there, at which I presented a paper entitled " Botanical Survey of the Government of Formosa, 

 with short Sketches on the Vegetation and Flora of the Island." This paper is now in press at 

 Brussels. 



2 > DIELS, Die Flora von Central China. ENGL. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. pp. 1CVJ-657. 



