MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 5 
of my materials is not yet represented at Kew, and that, in great 
probability, they are species not yet described. After finishing 
my work at Kew,” I went to the Herbarium at Paris, in order to 
see the type specimens of Chinese plants mainly described by 
FRANcHET. Then, my work was pursued in the Herbarium at 
Dahlem where are preserved a good many collections of Asiatic 
flora. My purpose in going to Dahlem was to see especially the 
specimens mentioned in Prof. Dreus’ “ Die Flora von Central 
China.”” In Dahlem, as in Paris, I devoted myself to making 
notes of the specimens preserved there, as I had not brought my 
materials with me. I especially devoted myself to making 
sketches, on tracing paper, of the specimens which are represented 
only in Dahlem and nowhere else, so that I could make a close 
comparison with these sketches on my return to Tokyo. After 
finishing my work, I went, with the same purpose, to the Her- 
barium at St.Petersburg, in order to see the type specimens of 
Maximowrcz. During my work on the continent, [ was successful 
in placing some species which I had not been able to determine 
at Kew. Still; many of the plants in my collections which remain 
as yet undetermined, are not represented in any of the herbaria 
on the continent. It is, therefore, highly probable that they are 
species not yet described. 
The plants mentioned in the present work are mostly of 
species newly described and, if not, they are new to the flora of 
Formosa, though there are a very few which were previously 
1) Drexs, L.—Die Flora von Central China, in Enau. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX, pp. 169-657. 
2) During my stay at Kew, I was away from my work, for a little more than a week, when 
I went to Brussels to take part in the International Botanical Congress, then being held there, 
at which I presented a paper entitled ‘ Botanical Survey of the Government of Formosa, with 
short Sketches on the Vegetation and Flora of the Island.’ The paper is now in press at 
Brussels. 
