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among the fiber plants show a. very hixuriant growth in Java, 

 but as fiber producers I think they are inferior to the same plants 

 grown in countries with a somewhat drier climate. Java now 

 has practically the monopoly in cinchona cultivation, and we 

 need therefore not be surprised that they have a number of 

 species and forms of this plant under observation in the eco- 

 nomic garden. 



Tjikeumeuh, as well as everything else connected with agri- 

 culture in Java is under Dr. Treub's able supervision since he 

 recently was appointed Director of Agriculture of Xetherland's- 

 India. 



VI. Bergtuin Tjibodas. 



On the slope of the volcano Gedeh, in Java, at an elevation 

 of 4,335 feet, there is still another botanic garden, Tjibodas. 

 Here is also a laboratory for the use of investigators, and with 

 the surrounding virgin jungle on all sides a botanist is never 

 without material for work. 



The garden is well laid out on the mountain side. Among 

 its treasures are two good-sized grass trees (Xautorrhca)" from 

 Australia. I do not remember having seen larger specimens of 

 this plant within the entire length and breadth of Australia. 

 Different species of Eucalyptus grow \'ory well here, and a young 

 stand of E. saligna had reached a truly remarkable size in this 

 moist climate, where it rains every day of the year. 



Coniferous trees have succeeded well at Tjibodas, and 

 among others I saw an old friend from Queensland, Araucaria 

 hidwelJii, and another, the Monterey cypress (Cypressus macro- 

 car pa), of the middle California coast. 



The only palms growing well at this elevation were a 

 PrUchardm and a Phoenix. In the adjoining jungle I noticed 

 a ver}' large specimen of AUliinjla exceJsa, not less than 180 

 feet high. ISTumerous indigenous treeferns give the edges of the 

 jungle an aspect that greatly reminded me of ISTew Zealand. 



{To he continued.) 



*See PLANT WORLD voL 9, page 139, for illustratioDS of this 

 and other plants in Java. 



