Chai\ IV] TROPICAL DISTRICTS CONSTANTLY MOIST ^ 



stem and branches alike. One and the same species is either always or 

 only partially cauliflorous. 



In Java I observed cauliflory — 



(a) On the main stem exclusively in Aristolochia barbata, Jacq., Saurauja cauli- 

 flora ', Parmentiera cereifera, species of Kadsura, Cynometra cauliflora, Diospyros 

 stricta, and other trees. 



Fig. 182. Kadsura cauliflora. Javanese liane in fruit. Natural size. Drawn by R. Anheisser. 



(b\ On the branches only in Jonesia minor, Epicharis sencea, Flacourtia inermis, 

 Evodia Batjan, Actinodaphne sp., Kibara coriacea, Saurauja nudiflora. 



It is of course by no means impossible that species in the first list also occasionally 

 produce flowers on old branches, and vice versa. I consider the habit in question as 

 constant only in the case of the two species of Saurauja, of which I observed 

 numerous specimens. 



(c) On both stem and branches in Theobroma Cacao, Crescentia Cujete, Arto- 



1 Whenever no author's name is mentioned, the names are those on the labels in the 

 botanic garden at Buitenzorg. 



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