1903.] ON CAVLERPA ANCEPS, HARV. 157 



provided with the characteristic pedicel, C. Stahlii must be reduced to it ; 

 and C. anceps must be taken away from the Hst of Japanese alga?. If, 

 on the other hand, the plant from the Friendly Islands had bullated 

 pedicels it is nothing but same species to C. hracliypus. Weber von Bosse 

 remarks. ^'Avant de decider la question si le brachypns est une forme 

 du C. anceps, comme on serait enclin a le croire, il faudrait encore en avoir 

 vu d'autres exemplaires." ^^ This would be decided by examining the original 

 specimen of Friendly Islands if the pedicels were bullated or not. 



Botanical Institute, Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 

 Oct. 4. 1903. 



Notes on Some Himalayan Plants collected 

 by the Rev. Keikai Kawaguchi in 1902. 



By • 

 Tokutaro Ito, D. Sc., F. L. S. 



The Eev. Keikai Kawaguchi^ a Buddist priest of the Wobaku Sect, 

 whose indefatigable journey to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is now well- 

 known in this country, was so fortunate as to collect some plants on his 

 way back from that capital to Japan, in December, 1902, in the vicinity 

 of Darjeeling in Sikkim Himalaya. Unfortunately, ail the specimens col- 

 lected by the reverend gentleman being sterile and, indeed, most of them 

 consisting only of detached leaves, their determination is extremely difficult 

 for us, as there exists at present no collection of Himalayan plants for 

 reference in the herbaria in Tokyo ; but no pains have been spared to 

 make them botanically accurate. Since, however, they represent the first 

 collection of Himalayan plants hitherto made by the Japanese, and, more- 

 over, notwithstanding the great distance between Japan and the Hima- 

 layas, they contain some interesting species which seem to indicate a close 

 affinity between the floras of these two regions, it may not therefore be 



1. Monogr. p. 281. 



