Ten(amen Florae Lutchuensis. 



Sectio Prima. 

 PLANTS DICOTYLEDONES POLYPETALS. 



AUCTORIBUS 



Tokutaro Ito, 



Socictatid LiiiiijcaiKC Londiuieii-iiö Hucius, 

 et 



Dr. J. Matsumura, 



in Universitate imperiali Tokyoensi botaiiices Professor. 



Introduction. 



The rich vegetation of that beautiful arehipehigo, which lies 

 scattered in the warm sea bathing the coasts of Eastern Asia, 

 and which forms, as it were, stepping-stones between the south- 

 eastern extremity of Japan and Formosa, is as yet imperfectly 

 known. This archipelago, know^n as the Liichii or Liukiu 

 Islands, consists of several groups of islands of various sizes 

 and configuration. The largest and by far the most important 

 is Uchimi or Okinawa, whose length is about seventy miles, 

 and whose breadth varies from two to nineteen miles ; whose 

 northern part is rough and mountainous, rising to an elevation 

 of some 1,500 feet; and whose inhabitants were so graphically 

 described by Captain Basil Hall^^ more than three-quarters of 



1) Captain Basil Hall's " Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West of Corea 

 and the Great Lochoo Ishmd."' London, ISIS. 



