Description of plates 15-17 

 Plate 15 

 Fig. 1 (at left). The grass trees, Xanthorrhoea Preissii, in the Tjibodas 

 Garden. These liliaceous trees are natives of the Australian savannahs. 

 Fig. 2 (at right). The stately bird's nest fern, Asplenium nidus. 



Plate 16 



Fig. 1 (at left). An Asplenium nidus suspended at the end of a slender 

 branch. Note other epiphytic ferns growing out of the base of the Asplenium. 



Fig. 2 (at right). The upper limits of the second subzone. The larger 

 trees (the maximum size at this altitude) are Engelhardtia. The smaller 

 trees are Pygeum, Elaeocarpus, Meliosma, and Schefflcra. Disporum is 

 abundant on the forest floor (lower right corner). The terrestrial ferns 

 are chiefly Dryopteris heterocarpa. Asplenium caudatum is the (epiphytic) 

 fern with long slender fronds to the right of the coolie. One of the most 

 abundant mosses in the profuse epiphytic moss growth is Papillaria fuscescens, 

 the typical festooning moss of the second subzone. 



Plate 17 



Fig. 1 (above). The moss section of the fourth subzone. The largest 

 tree (left center) is Schima Noronhae. The smaller trees are Polyosma, Sym- 

 plocos, and Rapanea. The liane is Vaccinium varingiaefolium (V. Teysmanni). 

 Few Vaccinium trees are to be found in the lower half of this zone. Note the 

 thick padding of moss. The moss covering the large tree is Sematophyllum 

 pinnalum. Suspended from the liane are the tiny epiphytic ferns, Poly podium 

 cucullatum and Hymenophyllum paniculiflorum. 



Fig. 2 (below). The lichen section of the fourth subzone. Note the 

 complete absence of moss. This is the last stand of trees on Mt. Gedeh. 

 The trees are almost entirely Vaccinium varingiaefolium, the same species 

 which grows as a liane a few hundred feet lower (see Fig. 1). 



