462 Botanical Notices from Java. 
Derris. 
Derris, Adams in Linn. Trans. ii. 67. 
1. D. sanguinea. 
Derris sanguinea, Adams in Linn.Trans. ii. 67. tab. 13. fig. 1, 2. Turt. 
Gmel. iv. 108. Turt. Brit. Faun. 132. Penn. Br. Zool. iv. 101. 
XLVI.—Journey through Java, descriptive of its Topography and 
Natural History. By Dr. Fr. JuNcHuUHN*. 
{Continued from p. 332.] 
Journey to the Merapi. 
We ascended from the Sawungang towards Andong, and at a 
height of 3000 feet came to a district which was covered with 
Saccharum Klaga growing to a height of from 15 to 20 feet. The 
forests then again appeared which had already been passed lower 
down. Here begins a frightful wilderness: high vaulted trees, 
covering the whole country far and wide, rose up from the deepest 
clefts and pressed against the steepest acclivities: climbers and 
densely interwoven shrubs filled up all the interstices between the 
stems. One while we came to a narrow mountain ridge scarcely 
two feet broad, between steep disrupted masses of rock covered 
with trees; then we mounted up these steep acclivities, climbing 
from the stem of one tree to another; then, again, we found 
ourselves in deep, moist, rocky clefts, vaulted over by the foliage 
of the trees and shrubs so thickly that not a ray of the sun 
could penetrate to us. The clouds had settled low on the moun- 
tains, and enveloped us in their damp and cold mists, which brought 
with them a peculiar odour. These deep forests are formed of 
hundreds of species of trees, which belong to the most various fami- 
lies. Preeminent are the species of Ficus, easily distinguished by 
their white, tenacious, milky sap, which flows from the injured 
bark; and next to these, the Magnoliacee and Urticee. In the 
thicket which fills up the spaces between their gigantic stems, the 
beautiful flowers of species of Medinella and other Melastomacee 
shine forth; and Scitaminee (Amomum, Zingiber, &c.) raise their 
luxuriant leaves to a height of 20 feet, whilst their variegated cones 
of blossoms only half appear above the moist ground. Urtica? di- 
chotoma, Bl. ‘ Bydragen,’ a small tree with beautiful leaves which 
on their under surface have white and parallel veins, adorns these 
thicketst. A little higher up occurs a beautiful social Lycopodium, 
which attains a height of scarcely three feet, and covers the moist 
parts of the woods, like our mosses, as a kind of coherent cushion. 
* From the Botanische Zeitung, Sept. 5th and 12th, 1845. 
+ Arbor est elegans, trunco gracili, 30—40 pedes alto, cinereo, ramisque 
gracilibus ; foliis in ambitu ramulorum collectis,—Silvulas constituit visu 
singulares, declivia montis Merapi ex altitudine 4000 pedum ad 6000 te- 
gentes.—Trunci, quo magis in altum montis adscendunt, eo humiliores eva- 
dunt, denique vix 20 pedes alti, Usneis tecti, e ramis longe dependentibus. 
