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here. The Royal Poinciana (P. regia), the Cassias (C. fistula, 

 ('. grandis, and C. nodosa), Durantas, Caesalpinias, and the 

 Pride of India (MeJia azedarach), give color to the tropical 

 green, while introdnced Casiiarinas, Eucalypts, and Grevilleas 

 intermingle in the parks and on the planted hillsides with the 

 native Ohia Lehua (Metrosideros poJymorpha), Koa (Acacia 

 koa), and sundry other indigenous trees. 



Along the seashore and in its immediate neighborhood are 

 numerous groves of cocoanut palms, and in most gardens sundry 

 tropical fruit trees, such as Carica papaya, Mangifera indica, 

 and Persea gratissima are common. The "I^ight Blooming Ce- 

 reiis" covers many stone walls in the city, and when in bloom is 

 a remarkable sight. 



Hawaii is an Eldorado for the botanist who has never been 

 in the Tropics. It is within easy reach of the Pacific coast, and 

 there is no place better suited for a pleasant vacation than these 

 islands Avith their almost tropical flora, where the climate is 

 agreeable, the living comfortable, and traveling easy. 



Four weeks spent in the islands in 1902, and four weeks in 

 1906, made me love "Hawaii nei," "Happy Hawaii," as the na- 

 tives call their kingdom of the sea, with its fair skies and blue 

 ocean, its bright flowers and its verdant green, its droning palms, 

 and its ragged volcanoes, its drowsy tropical atmosphere, and its 

 brilliant sunsets, surpassed by none in my experience but those 

 of Samoa, the most beautiful islands of the Pacific, 



11. BoTA^^ic Gabdeist of the Imperial Univeesity of Tokyo. 



On an early morning in late October, I first saw the "Land 

 of the Rising Sun" from the deck of the steamer laying at an- 

 chor in Yokohama harbor. I did not tarry long in Yokohama. 

 Just enough to get a glimpse of Japanese street life, and to 

 pay a visit to the Yokohama Nursery Company's gardens, where 

 hours were spent in examining interesting specimens of Japanese 

 plant life, natural and artificial, mostly the latter. Then off in 

 drizzling rain to the railway station, where the ricksha, pulled up 

 with a jerk, so suddenly that I was nearly precipitated into the 



