plant in seed on the road to Heirimbi at 2,500 feet, and Price afterwards found at much higher elevations another lily, which by the Japanese botanists is considered identical with L. philippinense. This plant has proved hardy in the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, though I cannot grow it outside at home. In the timber stores at Taihoku I pur¬ chased some very handsome pieces of dark red wood known as Katan, which I believe to be Bischoffia javanica, also an ebony from Koshun and a soft wood known as Shonanboku, which is Libocedrus macrolepis, and is much used for furniture, doors and tables. It is often well figured and resembles satinwood in colour. But by far the finest timber in Formosa is cut from the great burrs which are formed on the old Camphor trees. These are sometimes very large and beautifully figured; they are cut into slices about half an inch thick and used for table-tops, and I have had them cut into very beautiful veneers for cabinet making in England, which take a good polish.
On March 26th, as Price was not very well, I went with Kanehira to look for a very rare tree called Keteleeria Davidiana. We started across the plain to the Agricultural Station on a push-car, and then took jinrikshas with two coolies each, up a long valley partly cultivated with rice. After five miles it became too steep for the riksha, and I got a chair up to the top of the pass, 3,500 feet on the road to Heirimbi. There were many small patches of tea here, the leaf of which is sold fresh to the Chinese, who manufacture it, as the Japanese seem to have left this business to the Chinese. Three hours up the valley we reached a curious little village, Sekitei, on a narrow ledge above the river, where I saw a dried skin of a hedgehog in a druggist’s shop. A coolie passed by with a load of fresh deer meat; but though a small species of Rusa is not uncommon in the west and central provinces, and a variety of spotted deer, Axis, on the east coast, I saw no deer tracks anywhere. Several plants new to me were conspicuous in the jungle here. A large-flowered Rhododendron, a fine white Hydrangea, a Crinum (not in flower), and best of all, a real prize, in the shape of a Lily, of which I saw, growing out of the crevices in a steep rock among grass and scrub, a few plants only just coming into flower. One of the coolies succeeded in climbing the cliff and brought me down specimens, with bulbs, which I succeeded in sending safely to England. At the time, I saw that the plant, though smaller in flower, looked identical with the commonly grown Japanese Lilium speciosum, the wild habitat of which was unknown to Japanese or to European botanists, when I wrote on this genus forty years ago. Though the plant has been separated by Hayata under the name of L. Kanehiræ, I compared it carefully when in flower in my greenhouse three years later, and could find no reason to doubt my original conclusion. Though this plant has been in cultivation for over a century, it has never been found wild in China, and must have been introduced from Formosa to Japan at some remote period. Up to nearly 3,000 feet the sides of this valley were terraced for rice, and most skilfully irrigated by the streams. Some of the terraces were so narrow and the hillside so steep that it is wonderful how they can be ploughed by buffaloes.
After crossing the pass I descended along steep grassy hillsides covered
