24 Expedition of 1906 



a glorious view of the wooded high ground and of the cone of Goenong 

 Pajoeng, 470 metres high. 



On a rocky headland 40 metres high the masonry of the light- 

 house, visible even in the daytime for a considerable distance, rises 

 in front of us against a background of the dark green edge of the 

 forest. Rather more to the left a solitary storehouse stands on the 

 beach and next to it are the ruins of a large fort with its foundations 

 projecting far into the water. It was to this wall that our boat 

 brought us through the surf about 4 p.m. We were allowed to remain 

 on shore collecting until sunset. The captain had taken the pre- 

 caution to provide us with arms and ammunition from the ship's 

 armoury, as tigers and rhinoceroses are still plentiful in the outlying 

 parts of West Java. We endeavoured to ensure a safe passage through 

 the dark strand-forest and the adjacent grass thickets by repeatedly 

 firing our guns. 



Ipomaea Pes-ca/prae sprawls over the ground at the landing-place ; 

 there are large bushes of Hibiscus tiliaceus, Scaevola Koemgii, and 

 Touruefortia argentea in flower. Ischacmum muticum and Euphorbia 

 Atoto, with Wedelia glabrata, Ageratum conyzoides and other Com- 

 posites grow beneath tall plants of Galophyllum draped with the thick- 

 leaved Hoya. Stout rhizomes of Polypodiwm quercifolium bearing 

 two forms of leaf, bracket-leaves with the habit of large oak leaves 

 alternating with simply pinnate fertile fronds, creep over stems and 

 branches. The older parts of the rhizomes bear numerous and crowded 

 brown skeletons of the hunius-collecting bracket-leaves, while the 

 younger portions bear only ordinary fronds. Spiny Rotangs and low 

 Pandanus plants render penetration into the interior difficult, where 

 Saceharum spontanewm, various Cyperaceae, and ferns cover the 

 ground ; tree stems and large blocks of coral rock, which had been 

 swept by the flood of 1883 to a distance of several hundred metres on to 

 the land, are decked with creeping and climbing plants. Nephrolepis 

 exedtata occurs both as an epiphyte and growing in the ground; the 

 plants of the undergrowth are overgrown by Lygodium diehotomum 

 with its deeply palmate leaf segments. Aerides odorata and a Zingibe- 

 raceous species, Costus speciosus, are conspicuous by the brightness of 

 their flowers. The 36 vascular plants (32 phanerogams and 4 ferns) 

 which we took back with us to the ship are enumerated in the following 

 list: 



Fam. Compositae: Ageratum conyzoides L. 



*Blumea balsamifera D.C. 



Vernonia cinerea Less. 

 * Wedelia glabrata B. et H. 



