JAPANESE BOTANICAL LITERATURE. 



Hayata, B. : — 'Note on Juniperus taxifolia Hook, et 

 Arn. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. Vol. XXXIX. pp. 

 89-90. PI. 7. 



In the present paper, the author has endeavoured to 

 give a full description and illustration of this interesting species 

 and to terminate the confusion of identification due to the im- 

 perfect original description. So far as the auther is aware, no 

 complete account has ever been given of this juniper. It has 

 been recorded from the Bonin, the Loo-choo Islands, and 

 some parts of China. He has, however, wondered if this sub- 

 tropical juniper had ever reached, through the Loo-Choo islands, 

 as far north as China. Fortunately he has enjoyed enough, to 

 have the opportunity of examining the Chinese plant which was 

 recorded under the name of J. taxifolia. On examining the 

 specimens the author has found that they are altogether 

 different from the Bonin juniper in the shape of leaves, cones, 

 and male flowers. In the Chinese juniper the leaves are 

 very acute or even acerose, the male flowers are rather short, 

 the anthers are sessile or stipitate and irregularly arranged, 

 the appendices of the connectives are inconspicuous or some- 

 times obsolete, and the fruits bear pointed vestiges of the inner- 

 most bracts. In the Bonin juniper the leaves are obtuse, the 

 male flowers are much longer, the anthers sessile, never sti- 

 pitate, regularly arranged, the appendices of the connectives 

 are very clearly seen, and the fruits bear rounded vestiges of 

 the innermost bracts, and usually also of the bracts of the next 

 series. On account of these differences, the author concludes that 

 the Chinese Juniperus is not J. taxifolia, and must receive a 

 new name. Finally he has added a full description based upon 

 a very perfect specimen from the same islands and has devoted 

 a plate to an illustration of this species— (B. Hayata.) 



