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The friendly Paiwan exclaimed at my poor technique and came to 

 the rescue. Raishya is huilt of great slabs of slate. The houses, with 

 abundant carving in wood and stone, are very interesting. The people 

 wear head bands of flowers and are most attractive. 



On the return to Taihoku we stopped at a classic botanical locality 

 on the west coast, Ape Hill at Takao. On this mountain of the short 

 and low western range many botanical specimens were collected in 

 the early days by Europeans, especially Henry. It has now been 

 greatly modified by Chinese fuel and hay cutters, by being overrun 

 with Lantana, and by reforestation with Acacia, but it is still an 

 interesting locality for the rare and local palm, Pliociiix Hanccaua. 



After returning to Taihoku I spent a few days in the Herbarium 

 at the r)Otanical Garden identifying my collections — an especially 

 important matter since type material for comparison exists only in 



Fig. 103. — Old shelf with human skulls beside the door of a house in 

 Raishya. It is only by accident that such a shelf has escaped destruction by 

 the police. All the great shelves exist now only in memory and old photo- 

 graphs. 



Japan. The specimens that could not be studied here, I compared 

 in Tokyo at the Botanical Institute of the Imperial University. For 

 many courtesies at the herbaria I am indebted to Professor Bunzo 

 Hayata, the Nestor of Formosan botany, and to Mr. Yamamoto of 

 Tokyo, and to Mr. Sasaki of Taihoku. In Taihoku I enjoyed the 

 hospitality of the Japanese friends already named ; of our energetic 

 and helpful Consul, Mr. De Vault, and Mrs. De Vault ; of the Dutch 

 Vice-Consul, Mr. Nichols and his wife; and of Mr. Ilosui of the 

 Higher School, formeidy chief of the Division of Foreign Relations 

 of the Formosan Government. 



Although only about 370 numbers of plants were collected, there 

 are duplicates for several American institutions. The value of the 

 collection is greater than the number would indicate, because many 

 of the species have not heretofore been represented in American or 

 European collections. 



