SOME BOTANIC GARDENS ABKOAD. 



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order, which renders it easy to find a particular phmt when 

 necessary. Generally such a systematic arrangement has to bo 

 carried through at the expense of the landscape eft'ect, hut in 

 Euitenzorg garden the latter has not suffered. 



Figure 16. In Buitenzorg Botanic Garden. 



Endliclier's system some^vllat modified according to Bent- 

 ham and Hooker is followed. Every species is represented by 

 two specimens, one of which is labeled. At the corners of the 

 different sections labels indicate the families and genera repre- 

 sented in each, and red labels for a plant show that it does not 

 belong to the group comprising the section in which it stands. 



Upon entering the garden through the main gate, a long 

 ayenue of giant Canarium commune, with crowns forming a 

 canopy more than one hundred feet aboye, stretches before the 

 visitor. Every trunk is covered by climbers, such as Monstera 

 deliciosa, Philodendrons, Arithuriums, and other Aroideae, Lo- 

 ganiaceae and Gnetaceae, and on the branches is a rich flora of 

 epiphytic plants. To the left is the small town formed by the 

 office and laboratory buildings of the institution, of which more 



