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with the islands of the Java Sea or the Sunda Strait region. Of the 

 17 strand-plants which Guppy 1 records from the localities which he 

 visited on the south-west coast of Java, 14 belong to the Krakatau 

 flora. The Keeling or Cocos islands (south-east of the Sunda Strait 

 in lat. 12 S. and 98 E. long.), visited by Darwin 2 (1836), Forbes 3 

 (1878), and Guppy (1888), possess 18 representatives of the Krakatau 

 flora out of a total of about 30 phanerogams. The five localities 

 together (Edam, Vlakke Hoek, Java's First Point, S. W. coast of Java 

 and the Cocos islands) include 36 species (shown by *f or * in the list) 

 which are represented in the strand-flora of Krakatau. The 25 

 additional species, which occur in the new strand-flora of Krakatau, 

 belong to genera other species of which are mentioned as typical 

 strand-plants in the lists of Schimper and Hemsley. 



In the interior of the island, on the gently sloping beach and on 

 the sides of the cone, the following phanerogams and vascular 

 cryptogams occur with several species which are also included in the 

 list of strand-plants. 



Emilia sonchifolia- (L.) D.C. 



Senecio spec. 



Trichosanthes tricuspidata Lour. 



Carica Papaya L. 



Ficus fistulosa Reinw. 



Ficus hirta Vahl. 



Ficus leucantatoma Poir. 



Trema amboinensis Bl. 



Cymbidium Finlaysonianum Lindl. 



Spathoglottis plicata Bl. 



Mariscus umbellatus Vald. 



Imperata arundinacea Cyr. 



Phragmites Roxburghii Stend. 



Saccharum spontaneum L. 



Lycopodium cernuum L. 



Acrostichum scandens J. Sin. 

 Blechnum orientale L. 



Erechthites hieracifolia (L.) Raf. 

 Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less. 

 Melastoma polyanthuin Bl. 

 Albizzia stipulata Boiv. 

 Ficus fulva Reinw. 

 Ficus hispida L. 

 Ficus toxicaria L. 

 Arundina speciosa Bl. 

 Phajus spec. 

 Vanda Sulingi Bl. 

 Gymnothrix elegans Biise 

 Pennisetum elegans I.K. 

 Pogonatherum crinitum Trin. 



Ophioglossum moluccanum 



Schlecht 

 Aspidium vile Kze. 

 Gynmogramme calomelanos 



Kaulf. 



1 Guppy, H. B. The dispersal of Plants, as illustrated by the Flora of Keeling 

 or Cocos Islands. (Reprint, 1890, p. 30.) 



2 The plants collected by Darwin were determined by J. S. Henslow : " Florula 

 Keelingensis," Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1838, Vol. i. pp. 337347. The list is given 

 also in the Challenger Reports, Botany, Vol. i. Pt. iii. p. 113. 



3 Forbes, H. 0. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, 

 187883. Loudon, 1885. 



