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3. Aii excelleiit collection, by Mr. Setsusaburo Tanaka, 

 now Assistant Professor in the College of Agricalture of the 

 Iraperial University of Tokyo, made in 1891 in the islands of 

 Amami-Oshima, Uchina, Myaku, Ishigachi, Irumuti, and Yuna- 

 kuni, the last being a small island situated close to Formosa and 

 then for the first tinie botanically explored ; he also collected 

 some plants in Tane-ga-shima, an island situated near Kyushu 

 in the sonthern part of Japan, and has generously placed at 

 our disposal the whole collection numbering about 489, besides 

 many duplicates. 



4. A small set of plants collected by Mr. H. Nakagawa, 

 formerly Professor in the High School at Kuraamoto, during 

 his biological raission to the islands of Amarai-Oshinia and 

 Uchina in 1892. 



5. A rich collection made by one of the authors, T. Ito, 

 who, "while Professor at the Zoshikwan College at Kagoshima, 

 in the province of Satsuma, visited in 1894, the islauds of 

 Amami-Oshima, Uchina, Myaku, Irabu, Ishigachi, Irumuti, 

 Takidun, Kubama, Aragushiku, Kuru-shiraa, Uchibanari and 

 Sutubanari. His collection from these islands, comprising 929 

 numbers, besides several fine sets of duplicates, is the raost 

 comprehensive hitherto raade, and forms the basis of the 

 present work. 



6. A sraall nuraber of plants gathered at Binnu-taki in 

 the island of Uchina and kindly sent to T. Ito by Mr. Ringen 

 TiRA, a Lucliuan gentleraau Avho accompanied the former in 

 the mountainous districts of Kiinjan in the same island during 

 that author's botanical tour in the year 1894. 



7. A set of sorae 42 species collected iii Myaku-jiraa in 

 1895 by Mr. Shumpo Tatitu, a native gentlemau of the sarae 



