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§§ 1. Myrica Javanica Bl. 



§^§ J. Geographical distribution and oecology. 



§§§§ 1 . Distribution ca n d oecology outside J a v a. 



In 1895 1 collected iii tlie Sapoetaii mountains of North East 

 Celebes, at an altitude of 1400 — 1500 metres above sea-level, herba- 

 rium specimens of a small tree, which grew wild there. These 

 specimens are now in the Miis. Botan. Hort. Bog. at Buitenzorg ; 

 I considered that they dilfered only so slightly from Javanese speci- 

 mens of Afyrica javanica Blume, that I identified ') them with the 

 latter and still regard them as conspecific. As is proved by a speci- 

 men which I saw in the Royal Botanical Museum at Berlin, this 

 species was also collected by Warburg in N. E. Celebes and was 

 regarded by him as specifically different from the above-named 

 Javanese species. Except from Celebes and from Java, no stations 

 for Myrica javanica. Blume have been recorded in the literature. 

 Nor have I seen any specimens collected outside Java, in the Herbaria 

 at Leiden and at Utrecht. 



Since I ha\e not, at present at my disposal the specimens collected 

 by me in Celebes and preserved in the Hei'barium at Buitenzorg, I 

 can give no further data regarding Warburg's separation of his 

 specimens from Celebes in connexion with the specific value of the 

 differences, which I myself (/. c. p. 615) had already obsei'ved between 

 the specimens of Myrica javanica Bl., collected by me in Java and 

 in Celebes. For the present I therefore continue to regard the arbo- 

 rescent Myrica, collected on the Sapoetan summit in N.E. Celebes, 

 as identical with Myiica javanica Bl. of the Javanese mountains. 



§§§^ 2. Horizontal and vertical distribution 

 and oecology outside Java. 



As appears from Herb. Kds. in Mus. Hort. Bogor., I made in 

 the years 1888—1903 the following observations, which in part 

 have already been published in Koorders and Valeton, contribution 

 to the knowledge of the Trees of Java, IX (1903) p. 102. 



In West- and in Central Java above 1500 metres. In the Preanger 

 on the Gede at 3000 m. near the summit, on the Galoenggoeng by 

 the lake of Telagabodas at 1650 m. and 1700 m. In Tegal on the 



1) Koorders, S. H., Report of an ofticial botanical journey through the Mina 

 hasa, being a first survey of the Flora of N. E. Celebes; with 10 maps and 

 3 plates. (In Mededeelingen uit 's Lands Plantentuin N^. XIX (1898). Batavia and 

 The Hague p. 615). 



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