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 t>U CONSERVATOIRE BOTANIQUE DE GEN 



VENDU EN 1922 



Tentamen Florae Lutchuensis. 



Seetio Prima. 

 PLANT^ DICOTYLEDONEiE POLYPETAL^. 



AUCTORIBUS '■• "'''^^^'7 



Tokutaro Ito, ^^'' 



Socictatis Liuureaiue Loudiuien:sis Sociiis, 



et 1 



Dr. J. Matsumura, 



iu Uuiversitatc imperiali Tokyoeusi botanices Profe^-sor. 



Introduction. 



^ Tlie rich vegetation of tliat beautiful arcliipelago, wliicli lies 



5 scattered in tlie warni sea batliing tlie coasts of Eastern Asia, 



^o^^id wliicli forms, as it were, stepping-stones between tlie soutli- 

 ^ eastern extremity of Japan and Formosa, is as yet imperfectly 



-]$ known. Tliis arcliipelago, known as tlie Luchii or Liukiu 



(g Islands, consists of several groups of islands of various sizes 



j and configuration. Tbe largest and by far tlie most iraportant 



; is Ucbinii or Okinawa, whose length is about seveuty miles, 



r and whose breadth varies from two to nineteen miles ; whose 



' northern part is rough and mountainous, rising to an elevation 



c 



^; of some 1,500 feet ; and wTiose inhabitants were so grapliically 



described by Captain Basil Hall^^ more than three-quarters of 



1) Captain Basil Hall's "Account of a Voyagc of Discovery to the West of Core:i 

 and the Great Lochoo Ishuid." London, ISIS. 



