~ Botanical Notices from Java. 471 
‘In these months only a very few of the large forest-trees are 
found in blossom, although the species, as a superficial observation 
of their foliage shows, is infinitely numerous. I now only found in 
blossom Podocarpus latifolia, Bl., Vernonia javanica, DC., Ptero- 
ermum javanicum (Jgh.), and two species of Fagrea. 
“The Podocarpus is in its leaves deceptively like the Agathis loran- 
thifolia, Salisb., which I had not yet met with in this country, but 
which is cultivated in many splendid specimens at Pontokgedé, on 
the steep acclivities of the mountain. Its pyramidal growth, stretch- 
ing up aloft and being at the same time very narrow, readily distin- 
guishes it from all the other trees. 
*«« Of the Fagree I should consider one, which is recognised from a 
distance by its large golden blossoms glittering through the leafy 
crowns, as F’. obovata (obovata-javana), Bl., and the other as F. lan- 
ceolata, Bl., were they not both sixty to seventy feet high, large- 
stemmed forest-trees, whereas in the works of M. Blume they are 
described as parasitical and shrubby. 
«* An interesting sight to the northern stranger is the occurrence of 
a syngenesious plant, as a forest-tree fifty to sixty feet high and 
large-stemmed, with flowers resembling our Eupatorie; it is the 
Vernonia javanica, DC., which occurs scattered in the woods at a 
height of from 3000 to 5000 feet, but by no means rare. 
*« The Javanese give the name of Pohon-payor to a species of Ptero- 
spermum (Pt. javanicum, Jgh.), a very pretty tree, whose leaves are 
covered on the under surface with a rust-coloured silver-gray felt. 
The growth of these trees is more expanded than slender ; but they 
are discernible above all others by the whitish brown tint of their 
foliage, which glitters afar off; they however by no means impart a 
physiognomy to the wood, as they are isolated among the Rasamale, 
which are pre-eminent from their number, and also exceed all others 
in size and mass, so that these woods may rightly be called Rasa- 
mala-forests. And they were so now, being in full blossom. Their 
green foliage was clothed with a reddish tint, for the circumference 
of their rounded crowns was covered all over with blossoms, the 
small spherical male catkins, which gave to the whole surface of the 
forest, especially seen from a certain distance, a red enamel, and 
distinguished above all others a Rasamala-tree, even when its stem 
was hidden in the bosom of the forest. According to the observa- 
tions which I made several times on this and cther mountains, the 
region of the Rasamalas lies, where they are the most numerous and 
grow highest, at between 2000 and 4000 feet. At 4000 feet they 
are already very isolated ; at a greater height than 4500 feet I never 
saw them; but at 1500 feet they are still met with ; from which it 
may be observed, that their lower limits cannot be ascertained with 
the same certainty as their upper, and that it is to be feared that 
these noble trees, whose occurrence is limited to a few mountains in 
the west of Java (on the Salak, Gedé, on some mountains between 
Tjanjor and the Bay of Palabuan-Ratu, and some others), will one 
day completely disappear: for their region is also of very small 
vertical extent, and is precisely at the same height at which coffee- 
