34 ART. I'J. — B. HAYATA: 



Passing over many hilly passes, they found themselves on an 

 elevation of about 2,400 ft., where they saw a beautiful forest of 

 Dendrocalamiis*^ and Bambusd'K 



From a height of 3,000 ft. npwards, beautiful arbors of 

 camphor^' and Quercus*'' made a dense forest with a liana formation, 

 and many epiphytes of ferns, orchids and mosses. In this forest, the 

 undei'growth is also beautiful ; large tree ferns^\ graceful stellate 

 ferns*'\ wild Musa'\ Calamui\ Alocasicv'\ all combining to form i\ 

 glorious example of tropical vegetation. 



At the height of 3,700 ft., a pretty herb'"' of the Urtica family 

 occurred plentifully, and on it two species"^ of Balanophoracca? 

 were found attached to the liost. 



Further, at the height of 4,200 ft., the trees of various 

 QuercV^^ densely covered the plot, while many climbing plants 

 hanging from the top of trees made the forest still more 

 beautiful. 



Ascending a little higher, they came to the boundary of the 

 savage districts. In a grassy plot near by, they found an 

 Adenophora^^^, wild pinks"\ and violets'^\ in full bloom. Aleurites^^^ 

 and Idesia}''' were found in bloom in the village. 



Crossing this savage belt, they entered the virgin forest of the 

 western slope. Here at an elevation of 4,500 ft., the camphor 



1) Dendrocalamus lat'iflorus Muneo. 10) Pilea Wattersil Hance ? 



2) Bambusa OMkami Munbo. 11) Balanopkora splcata Hayata & B. parvior 



3) Cinnamomum Camphora N. et E. Hayata. 



4) Quercus & Castanopsis. 12) (2u€rcus Jungkuhn'd MiQ., Q. Kaicakamii 



5) Alsophila, Oibotium, & Dicksonia. Hayata, and other species of the genus.^ 



6) Asplen'mm Nidus Linn. 13) Adenophora verticUlaia Fisch. 



7) Musa paradisiana Linn, subsp. seminifera 14) Dianthus saperbus Linn. 

 Baker, var. formosana Wakb. 15) Viola japonica Langsd. 



8) Calamus fonnosanus Becc. & Calamus 16) Aleurites cordata Steud. 

 Margarita} Hance. 17) Idesia polymrpa Maxim. 



9) Alocasia macrorrhlza Schott. 



