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This remarkable Cephalotaxus seems to be widei}^ distributed over 

 Hokkaido. It was hitherto commixed with Caphalotaxus drupacea 

 and sometimes considered to be a dwarf northern form of it. I have 

 been in Hokkaido this summer. Going to Nopporo-forest 1 was as- 

 tonished to tind it making a pure bush under woods of Abies sachali- 

 nensis and Quercits crispula. I traced the root and found that the 

 bush which covers certain area consists of a few stocks. Not only it 

 branches from the base of stem, but its rhizome-like roots stretch under 

 the ground, from wliich manj' aerial slioots come out. We tried to get 

 young plants came out of seeds ahd those shoots often puzzled us. The 

 shoots fruit when the}' become three feet high. Mr. Maekawa, the 

 assistant professor of Hokkaido Universit}' who went there with me, 

 told me that the ripen fruits are reddish and edible. We tried several 

 half-matured ones and they taste sweet however rich of regin. We 

 kept a number of them and the\' became soon red. The Aidzu-one has 

 the inedible fruits, but the habit is quite the same with Yeso-one. 

 Both in Yeso and Aidzu this plant attains the same height with Sasa 

 paniculata and often make social bushes. 



448) Torreya nucifera, (Linnk) Sieboi.d et Zuccakini in Abh. Akad. 

 Muench, IV. part 3 (1846) p. 232. 



var. radicans, Nakai. 



Caulis e basi caespitoso-ramosus et fere 8 pedalis attingens, radi- 

 cante-ascendens. Rami biennes claro-rubescentes. Truncus diametro 

 vulgo quam 6 cm. brevier. 



Nom. Jap. Chabo-ga3'a. 

 Hab. 



Hondo; in montibus Aidzu ptov. Iwashiro (Takenoshin Nakai). 



This Torreya grows on the mountains near Aidzu among broad- 

 leaved trees and Sasa paniculata. I could not find any big trees. 

 Many wood-cutters whom I met with told me that in that locality 

 Torreya is always shrubby and branches from root. 



var. typica, Nakai. 



Arbor erecta vulgo magna. 

 Nom. Jap. Kaya-no-ki. 

 Hab. 



Quelpa;rt : in silvis Ncjkatji (Taquet n. 1448), in silvis (Taquet n. 

 6009). in silvis Hallasan 900 m. (Takenoshin Nakai n. 7717). Chodori 



(TsUTOMU ISHIDOYA n. 279). 



Corea : in silvis montis Pai-yang-san (Takenoshin Nakai n. 

 1015), in silvis insuUc Wangto (Takenoshin Nakai n. 7716). 



Distr. Kiusiu, Sljikoku et Hondo. 



