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AKT. VJ. — -B. HAYATA : 



Hab. in monte Morrison, leg. E. Toeii, 1900 ; Seizan, in mon- 

 tibus Morrison, ad 11570 ped, alt., leg. S. Nagasawa, Nov. 1905, 

 (No. 752); in isdem montibiis, ad i:]000 ped. alt., (No. 2262), et 

 ad 8000 ped. alt., (No. 2039), in montibns centralibns, (No. 2099), 

 leg. T. Kawakami et U. Moei, Nov. 1906. 



Very like J. communis Linx. ; bnt 

 differs from it in liaving pointed vestiges 

 on tlie frnits ; also near J. iaxlfoUa Hook. 

 et Aex., but differs from it in having 

 acute leaves ; from J. rlglda Sieb, et 

 Zrcc, in liaving less narrowed leaves 

 and acute vestiges on tlie fruits. 



The present plant has erroneous- 

 ly been regarded by myself and also by 

 some other botanists as the same species 

 as tlie Benin ./. ta.v/J'olia. On re-examining 

 carefully the all specimens of the genus, 

 Jdnipci'KS, from Cliina, Formosa, Japan, 

 the Benin islands and Loo-choo archi- 

 pelago, 1 have found that ,/. taxlfoUa is 

 confined to the latter two archipelagos, 

 but does not extend to either Formosa 

 or China. The Formosan plant differs from the Benin species in 

 having pungent leaves. As to the Juiuperiis of China, I was so 

 fortunate as to examine the same specimens which Avere studied 

 by the late Dr. M. T. Mastees, F. E. S., F. L. S. The Chinese plant 

 collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson in West China, Changyang (Hupeh, 

 No. 428), which is referred to J. taxifolia by that eminent authority^' 



1). M. T. Mastees : Chinese Conifers collected by E. H. Wilson, in tlie Journal of Botany, 

 Vol. XLI. p. 267, & On Chiness Conifers, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, XXXVII. p. 4i:î. 



Fig. 6. 



Juniperus tax'ifoU't Hook, et Akx. 



from the Bonin islands. 

 «- a branch ; h- a leaf, seen from 

 within ; c- the same, seen from 

 without ; '/- bracts at the base of 

 a fruit, seen from below. 



