524 



Season of flowering and fruiting. The two numbered trees (23/i and 

 39//) fniited in ilanli, tlie older s[)eciinen (39«) very abundantly'. 

 The flowering season is for Depok in the first half' of the wet 

 monsoon (October — December). 



Economic use. According to my native guides the wood is not 

 durable and is therefore only used as fire-wood, in spite of its large 

 dimensions. Formerly the disc-shaped wheels of pedatis (buffalo-carts), 

 were sometimes made from the thick plank-buttresses, found on the 

 roots of these, as of other trees. Th.e older of the two trees mentioned 

 (39n) now within the wire fence of the nature reserve, still beai'S 

 clear traces of this custom, now obsolete foi' many years, for 

 evidently a wheel of a bnflalo-cart has been cut out of one of the 

 plank-buttresses. Formerly the natives of Depok also prepared an oil 

 from the interior of the seeds (from the embryo). No other economic 

 application ofSloaneajavanica is known. 



Culture. On account of its size and fine arboreal habit, and of 

 the brilliant colour of its large fruits and seeds, this species deserves 

 to be cultivated as ornameutal tree, at least in the lower districts 

 of Java. So far, however, S 1 o a u e a j e v a n i c a has not been 

 planted outside (he )^uitenzorg Oardens. 



Description of tlio species. In 1894 K o O r d e r s and V a 1 e t o n, 

 in their "Bijdragen lot de kennis der Boomsoorten van Java", p. 240, 

 under "Aanmerkingen", included a note on Sloanea javanica, of 

 which the following is a translation : "The description of the leaves 

 from a living specimen in the Buitenzorg Gardens (VI. C. 94); the 

 rest according to M i q u e 1 I.e.". "The actual habitat is not known, 

 and the tree is only known from the above gardens, so that it 

 perhaps originates from one of the outer islands, and not from Java". 



"This species is still wanting in "Herb. Kds". (Thus in BijdrcXgen 

 Booms. Java I). 



I further wrote in J 91 2 in vol. II. (p. 571) of my "Exkursionsflora 

 von Java" the following : 



"Java? Angeblich (iiach Miquel I.e.) wild in Java, jedoeh 

 vermntlich dort nich ausserhalb des botanischen Gartens von Buitenzorg 

 vorkommend. Jedenfalls sah icli noch keine einwandfreie javanische 

 Spezimina". 



The finds and observations made in 1898 and in March 1915 in 

 the nature reserve of Depok have filled up in a gratifying manner 

 the lacuna in our knowledge of the habitat of this rare tree. 



