Some Conifers from Tonkin and Yunnan. 



By 

 Bunzo Hayata. 



It is the general opinion that the Coniferae in the Far East 

 have been quite exhaustively investigated, or at least are better 

 known to us than any other family of the flowering plants. 

 Nevertheless, on examining a small set of Conifers recently 

 collected by Prof. Shitaro Kawai in the districts between Yun- 

 nan and Tonkin, I was astonished to find not a few novelties. 

 Strange to say, coniferous forests in those regions had never 

 before been noticed by any botanist, nor was their existence 

 recorded by any explorer. 



Professor Kawai was led to the discovery of the forests in 

 the following interesting way. A famous Chinese poem " Shu- 

 hai-ko " (song of the ocean of forests) by Chao Ou PeI, which 

 is well known among Chinese scholars in our countr\' once 

 attracted his attention. As the poem is a really beautiful and 

 even faithful description of the forests, I shall take the libert}*- 

 of quoting it in full."' 



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