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Bauhinia Championi, readily distinguished by the characteristic 
bifid, leaf of fae goms a nad long racemes of white pie in September. 
iS g * pono, *- Ba ca 
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) and turmeric (Curcuma longa) are 
Sidi. ibe latter being a large export from Anping. Canna indica 
äs FE cultivated flower. Two species of wild Zingiber occur 
he rara Yia Mountains, and a very conspicuous Alpinia Th 
beautiful l flowers is everywhere common. It is A. nut tans. ` Mats are 
occasionally made of the leaves 
tall and graceful plant with white flowers in July oceurs on apes 
Hill Lag in the bamboo groves on the plain. It is Costus specios 
1e Arum family is doubtless well represented in the moun bode 
but satisfactory specimens for the herbarium are difficult to prepare 
and so my native collectors have shirked them. Mr. Morse sent me 
3 feet in breadth, is common, and has been carried into cultivation as 
an ornament of European houses on the mainland. 
A new species of Amorphophallus is met withon A pes Hill , distinguished 
by its. tuber, like a large potato, which puts forth a single flo T 
‘stalk, expanded above into a hollow organ, covered with bristles, 
red or purple in colour, and a gruesome sight. In the following year 
the aba sends up a stem bearing three much-divided leaves. A still 
larger species of this genus, with a tuber 8 or 9 inches in diameter, 
oceurs in the Kalee Mountains. An enormous climber ascending to 
the summits of the loftiest trees oceurs in the mountains, both in the 
south and at Tamsui, amn ge are two or pos examples of it near 
the Laiwee village close to "'akow. This is Kpipremnum mirabile, 
the Tonga plant, with rea irem iota i loopholed. This plant 
is said to be a specifie for neuralgia. 
»Pothos Seemanni is a common climber on cliff walls. 
most common palm is Phoenia humilis, which occasionally 
attains 10 feet in height. Ii bears small edible fruit of the same 
flavour as the date.‘ It is known here as “kuang lang," the name i-i 
pro- 
Takow, ones is Mp art in the mountains. It has been patreddóed 
into the Hong Kong Botanie Garden by Mr. Ford. It bears a small 
quantity of coir, and is therafore styled * tsupg " by Formosans, which 
is the name given in Central China to Trachycarpus excelsa, g generally 
known as * Chamaerops," the palm which eden the eoir of Central 
China. The Areca palm is cultivated on the plain, and I have 
specimens of a species of Trachycarpus from savage territory. : 
' Around Takow there are two species of bamboo very common, the 
* chi tik” or thorny bamboo, much used for fences, aud the *: lik tik, * 
which has broad leaves. ‘This occurs wild, and is also much planted 
for its excellent bamboo shoots. I have obtaiued à oweriug specimens 
m , 
& mao-chu” (hairy bamboo), which is used in making the sea-going 
catamarans. Specimens of bamboos showing both foliage and inflores- 
cence are very valuable, and the nn attention of travellers i is directed 
to obtaining and sending them to Kew for identification. Most 
bamboos only flower when ‘they have attained a mature age, debi once 
