in a lovely valley at about 2,500 feet. The change of climate here from the warm soft air of Kagoshima was very marked, the thermometer in my room falling to 40° at night; and when I went out early next morning a sharp white frost was on the ground, though at ten o’clock it was all gone and a fine, sunny, warm day ensued.
The forest flora here was very interesting, and I can hardly imagine a better station for a botanist who wished to compare the vegetation of the extreme south of the Japanese Empire with that of Koyasan, or Nikko in the centre, or of Hokkaido in the far north. The mixture of temperate and sub-tropical types here is most interesting, as the following list of trees will show:
Abies firma up to 135 feet by 12 feet 10 inches, Tsuga Sieboldii up to 100 feet by 10 feet, and Pinus densiflora , very like our Scotch pine in habit and colour of the bark, were abundant, the pine attaining 80 to 90 feet by 7 to 9 feet.
Stuartia pseadocamellia is common in dense forest where it forms a tree up to 70 feet by 9 feet, and has a very handsome smooth red or orange- brown bark, which when old becomes mottled with grey.
Magnolia hypoleuca , about 70 feet high, had no leaves or flowers out as yet.
Daphniphyllum macropodum , a small tree with handsome leaves.
Pasania is the largest tree here except Abies firma, and often stands alone in land which has been burnt over.
Torreya nucifera (Kayo), with the habit of T, californica, was common here, but I saw no large trees. I found many small seedlings, but have not been able to cultivate the tree in England.
[Note.—Mr. W.R. Price has very kindly read and revised the account of the journey which he made in company with Mr. Elwes.]
