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Hawaï and from Australia: in this rase one of' two specimens (from 

 Sieber) which appear to me to he quite similar, has been determined 

 by Miquel as C. equisetifolia Forst, and the oilier as C. leptoclada 

 Miq. In Diels [Die Planzenwell von West-Australiën südlich des 

 Wendekreises (1906 1] the occurrence of some other species of Casud- 

 rina is mentioned, but not of C. equisetifolia. Prof. Dr. I,. Diels 

 was so kind as to supply me with the following information on 

 this point: "Casuarina equistifolia kommt in West-Australiën sicher 

 nicht vor. Ob er in Ost-Australiën wachst habe ich persönlich nicht 

 festgestellt, da ich mich dorl nur kürzere Zeil aufhielt. Das von 

 Ihnen erwahnte Exemplar, leu. Sieber, stammt aus der Gegend von 

 Sydney, denn dort hat Sieber gesammelt." (Diels mso. 21. IV. 1908). 

 From the Malay Archipelago outside Java I saw ('. equisetifolia 

 represented in the Herbaria at Leiden and at Utrecht from ihe 

 following places: Sumatra (leg. Korthals ; Tbijsmann & de Vriese). 

 Timor (Forbes n. 3746), Moluccas (Reinw.), the North of Dutch New- 

 Guinea (Expedition of Wichmann, detenu. Valeton). The examples from 

 Sumatra, collected by Korthals, generalij have 8 teeth, as Miquel 

 already noted for these specimens. In N. E. Celebes the species is 

 not found wild t there I only found C. Rumphiana Miq. x ). 



§§2. Geographical distribution and oeco logical 

 conditions in Java-. I have never found C. equisetifolia growing 

 wild except in Western-Java in the S.W. of the residency Ban ten in 

 the division Tjaringin near the village of Tjemara, and there only 

 on a sandy sea-shore, on a small peninsula (= oedjoeng, malay) at 

 sea-level, growing socially. 



This may serve as a correction of the statement in Koord, and 

 Valeton "Boomsoorten Java" X (1904) p. 273 (line 12 from top): 

 "Tjemara (Banten) a/tit. 200 M. supra mare." 



Junghchn says in his Java. I. 2 nd edit. (1853) 272 : "Were we 

 concerned in dealing with Sumatra, we should have to mention 

 among the trees which grow in groups in the shore forests the 

 Tjemara laoet : Casuarina equisetifolia Forst {muricata Roxb); nowhere, 

 however, have I found this beach-Casuarina, although natives have 

 assured me, that it is found in some places on the North coast of 

 Krawang" (Jcngrthn 1. c). It appears, however, that probably 

 Junghuhn afterwards succeeded in finding this species wild in Java, 

 namely on the Lawoe, although 1 have not been able to find anything 



i) Koorders, S. H., Eerste Overzicht d. Flora N. 0. Celebes (1893) 616: cf. 

 Koorders and Valeton. Bijdrage Booms. Java X. (1904) 172 (Mededeelingen Lands 

 Plantent. n°. 19 en 68). 



