MATERIALS FOE A FLORA OF FORMOSA. Ö 



of my materials is not yet represented at Kew, and that, in great 

 probability, tliey 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 

 Feanchet. Then, my work was pursued in the Herbarium at 

 Dahlem wliere are preserved a good many collections of Asiatic 

 flora. My purpose in going to Dahlem was to see especially the 

 specimens mentioned in Prof. Diels' " Die Flora voir 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 

 Maximowicz. During my work on the continent, I was saccessful 

 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 nndetermined, are not represented in any of the herbaria 

 on the continent. It is, tlierefore, highly probable that they are 

 species not yet described. 



The plants mentioned in the present work are mostly of 

 species newly descril)ed and, if not, tliey are new to the flora of 

 Formosa, tliougii tliere are a very few which were previously 



1) J>iKLS, L. — I'io Flora von Central (.'hitia, in Engl. not. .lahrb. XXIX, pp. 109-657. 



2) D)irinp my stay at Kew, I was away from my -worlc, for a little more than a week, when 

 I went to Brussels to take part in the International Botanieal 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 pre.^s at 

 Brussels. 



