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Pekalongan is however, nol situuled in the Snnda district ("Sunda- 

 landschap = tlie piesent Preanger), but in Central Java. 



2. Fiirliierniore Junghuhn cannot iiave collected at Pekalongan at 

 an altitude of 3 — 6000 feet, since Pekalongan lies in a low plain. 



3. Junghuhn collected much herbarium material on and near the 

 plateau of Pengalengan. 



4. As is proved by authentic specimens preserved at Leiden, the 

 plants collected on and near the Pengalengan plateau have often 

 similar labels to the Bambiisacea spec, indet. of Junghuhn, here in 

 question. 



5. The herbarium specimen of Dr. Pulle, no. 3173 was also 

 collected near the Pengalengan plateau in the Preangei", and also at 

 an altitude of 1600 ni.; the species is not yet known from any other 

 locality. Taking this into account, there seems little doubt, that Miquel's 

 words "bij Pekalongan" etc., under Junghuhn's Bambusacea, should 

 be deleted and should be replaced by : in the Preanger, at 3000 — 

 6000 feet (1000 — 2000 m.) probably on or near the plateau of 

 Pengalengan discovered in 1839 by Junghuhn, and called there 

 according to Junghuhn Banibu-o-o (Sundanese> 



According to verbal information, which Dr. Pulle was kind enough 

 to give me, his Bambusacea no. 3173 was called by the Sundanese 

 A'wi-eueul. Here I adopt the same transliteration as was used by the 

 late Dr. J. Brandes and most other authors, for the Sundanese t^^^sound. 



I now consider the word Bambu-d-o- a less correct transcription ^) 



1} hi Java all the species of Bamboe are invariably referred by the natives to 

 one of the following genera: Bcmibu (Malay) — Aun (Sundanese); Pring (Low 

 Javanese = Deling (High Javanese). 



Hasskarl writes Awi-ülül (Sundanese) for his Bambiisa elegantissima, Hassk. 

 Piant. Jav. rar. (1848) 42; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. HI (1885) 4:^0 = Beesha elegantis- 

 sima (Hassk.) Kmz = Melocanna elegantissima (Hassk.) Kuri. = Schizostachyuni 

 elegant issimum (Hassk.) Kurz in hidian Forests 1 (1876) 3i7. — About an authen- 

 tic specimen of Schizostachyum elegant issimum (Hassk.) Kurz Mr. J. S. Gamble 

 was so kind as to give me the following valuable information : "1 have here, belonging 

 to my Herbarium and probably a duplicate from Calcutta, authentic pseudophylls 

 — large things 12 inch long and 6 inch broad and very hairy, marked in Kurz' 

 own handwriting "Melocanna elegantissima'". They do not look at all as if they 

 could belong to Dr. Pulle's plant (Gamble msc). Lateron, when the additional 

 from his plant asked for from Java by Dr. Pulle of one of his friends in the 

 Preanger will be received here, I hope there will be an opportunity for giving 

 more information on this interesting species. 



