ART. Va. — B. HAYATA 



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I .) Elements of the Flora of the Montane Zone. 



The montane zone treated in the present paper embraces a 

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



722" including in its centre 



Mt. Morrison, the highest 

 peak of tlie Japanese 

 Empire. This mountain, 

 lying a little within the 

 tropic of Cancer, attains 

 a height of 13,120 ft. It 

 presents various climatal 

 features from tropical 

 through temperate up to 

 tliose of cold regions, 

 and in winter snow" is 

 frequently seen on the 

 summit. 



The term flora used in 

 this w^irk includes flo- 

 w^ering plants, ferns and 

 their allies. The lower 

 cryptogams are entirelj^ 

 omitted. I have enu- 

 merated 392 species be- 

 longing to 79 families 



Tropic of 



tathok1!% 



MèWSM 



TAINAN^ |%^^^^f 





22.0° 123: 



Fig. 1. Skctcli-map of Formosa. 

 Piefectmal Loiindaries. 



and 200 genera. 



Most 

 species are 



of the 



northern elements. 



