JAPANESE BOTANICAL LITERATURE. 



Hayata, B., Flora Alontana Formos^e, an Enumeration 

 of the Plants found on Mt. Morrison, the Central 

 Chain, and other Mountainous Regions of Formosa 

 at Altitudes of 3,000-13,000 ft. With 41 plates and 

 16 woodcuts ; 260 pages. (Journal of the College of 

 Science, Imperial Universit}- of Tok^^o, Japan, Vol. 

 XXV. Art. 19, 1908). 

 In the 3'ear 1905, Prof J. Matsumura and the present 

 author jointly published an enumeration of plants found in 

 Formosa, including about two thousand speeies of flowering 

 plants, ferns and their allies. At that time, the collections, 

 with the exception of a few sets of plants found on Mt. Mor- 

 rison, did not extend to elevations of anj^ great altitude. It is, 

 therefore, quite proper to regard it as an enumeration of the 

 flora of the low districts. On the botany- of the mountain 

 zone, there was no special publication, except a few papers 

 that have appeared in the Tokj-o Botanical Magazine. 



In this work, the author has endeavoured to give some 

 complete information relating to the mountain zone of the 

 island. The majority of the collections \vhich the writer 

 worked up, were made by the officers of the Government of 

 Formosa. The mountain zone treated in this work embraces 

 a most extensive area from 3,000 ft. up to 13,000 ft. above sea 

 level, including in its centre Mt. Morrison lying a little within 

 the tropic of Cancer and attaining a height of 13,120 ft. The 

 plants enumerated here are 392 species belonging to 79 families 

 and 266 genera. Most of the species are northern elements. 



In the introductory^ part of this work, the author has 

 especially called his attention to the comparison of this flora 

 and the floras of the neighbouring countries. In order to 

 pursue this end, he has given a complete list of the plants 

 with indications as to their distributions. Arctic, antarctic 



