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enabled to proceed for the purpose of botanical investigation to 

 the Luchuan Archipelago ; to Professor Setsusaburö Tanaka 

 for his kind generosity in submitting the whole of his important 

 collection for determination ; and to Mr. Sakutaro Higashi, 

 of the Normal School at Kagoshima, for the loan of some 

 interesting specimens of Luchuan plants belonging to the same 

 school. 



Our thanks are also due to Messrs. Shintaeö Ogawa 

 and HiSASHi Kukoiwa, the latter of whom accompanied Dr. 

 Matsumuea as far as Kunjan in the island of Uchina. Nor must 

 we omit the name of Mr. Isaburö Itö, who accompanied T. 

 Itö to the Lûchû Islands and assisted him in every possible 

 way. The most grateful thanks of one of the authors are due 

 likewise to the three young and highly cultivated Luchuan 

 gentlemen, Messrs. Tira, Tatitu, and Aragachi, all of whom 

 accompanied Itö in his botanical tours through the island of 

 Uchina, the Myaku Group, and the Yêma Archijjelago, res- 

 pectively. 



To these and to all other friends by whose kind assistance 

 we have been so fortunate as to profit, we tender our heartiest 

 thanks. 



Töhyö, 

 23rc? Blarch, 1899. 



