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the equator, the true picture of a northern fir- wood. Soon how- 

 ever, as the tortuous rhinoceros- path greatly assists the ascent, these 

 firs also leave us, and all the larger forest-trees disappear at about a 

 height of 7000 feet. But now begins a variegated mixture of the most 

 manifold and magnificent shrubs covering the acclivities, and the 

 eye rests with rapture on the lovely blossom-covered bushes of Gna- 

 phaliiim javanicum and Hypericum javanicu?n, Bl., of Lonicera fla- 

 vescens, Gaultheria punctata, and others, under the shade of which 

 the forms of northern plants, as Valeriana, Ranunculus, Thalictrum, 

 Swertia, Viola, 2ind Plantago, appear as old acquaintances. We now 

 took our way through these bushes, and came, at near ten o'clock, 

 to a small headland, from whence we looked down upon the clouds 

 far below, appearing like a white moving sea : this headland resem- 

 bles a plateau, which interrupts the continuous and steep side of 

 the mountain ; on the north-east it'is bounded by a deep cleft, is 

 moreover of only small extent, and soon rises again to the mountain- 

 top, which is about 1000 feet higher. Beside small shrubs, it is 

 especially overgrown with tall species of grass, amongst which 

 several low- trodden rhinoceros-paths wind their course. But the 

 acclivity of the mountain itself is clothed with small woods of a 

 peculiar appearance, which ascend up nearly to the edge of the cra- 

 ter; in some tracts it is Acacia »2on^aw« (Kamalandingang), whose 

 slender stalks are pressed together; in others Thibaudia varingicefolia, 

 which we never saw so luxuriant and strong as here ; it forms a 

 shady wood, through which we made our way along a rhinoceros- 

 path ; its stems attain the thickness of a man's thigh up to that of a 

 man's body, and rise in a sinuous, generally oblique direction, tM^enty 

 to thirty feet high, before they branch out into the leafy crowns. 

 The long Usnece, which hang down from the branches — the thick 

 layers of numerous mosses and lichens, which together fructifying 

 in the most luxuriant manner, clothe the knotted sinuous stems — 

 further, the enormous circumference of a species of plant which we 

 are quite unused to meet with so large, — give to this forest an extra- 

 ordinary, primaeval, and as it were a solemn appearance. The ground 

 in the wood is covered with grasses, among which here and there 

 occurs a Balanophora elongata, Bl., which we found at such heights, 

 parasitical on roots of Thibaudia." 



[To be continued.] 



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Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

 Vol. ii. Parts 1 & 2. Edinburgh, 1845. 



It will not be requisite that we should say anything more concerning 

 this publication, since the papers contained in it are already known 

 to our readers, they having appeared in vols. xi. to xvi. of these 

 'Annals.' 



They are now resissued in the present form for the convenience of 

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