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where it is irregularly frmged by coral reefs, that we find 
most extensively represented these and other common littoral 
trees. A little within the belt of pandan trees and of 
Crinum asiaticum that immediately lines the beach, the coast- 
road for several miles traverses a forest of fine old trees of 
Hernandia peliata, with which is associated also in consider- 
able numbers Cerbera odollam and Premna obtusifolia, together 
with Terminalia Catappa, Guettarda speciosa, and an occasional 
Calophyllum inophyllum, It is scarcely necessary to refer 
here to the ubiquitous Jpomea pes capre, which commonly 
clothes the ground near the beach in this locality as well as 
along the whole south coast of West Java. . . . It may 
perhaps be of interest to those who have not the time or the 
inclination to visit the remote south coast of Bantam, to learn 
that along the west shore of Wynkoops Bay between Palabuan 
and Tyisolok the littoral trees are well represented. Border- 
ing the beach there we find pandan trees, Crinum asiaticum, 
Scevola Kenigii, Cerbera odollam, &c., whilst immediately 
within, the coast-road traverses a belt of handsome old trees 
of Calophyllum inophyllum and Terminalia Catappa, with which 
are also associated banyans and the familiar Hibiscus tiliaceus 
ee, I should, in the last place refer to a species of 
Tacca (17. pinnatifida), of which one observes, but only at rare 
intervals, a few solitary individuals growing a little within 
the vegetation lining the beach. 
The mode of dispersal of the majority of the plants above 
mentioned has been already referred to in my remarks on the 
Cocos-Keeling Islands ; and it will be at once perceived that 
these islands might have largely been stocked with their 
flora from the south coast of West Java. There are, how 
ever, some of their trees that did not come under my obser- 
vation on this coast, as, for instance, Barringtonia speciosa 
and Cordia subcordata. Doubtless, however, they do occur, 
though not in many localities; yet it should be remarked 
that I very rarely came upon the fruits of the first-named 
tree among the vegetable drift on the beaches, whilst those 
of Cordia subcordata did not come under my notice at all. 
Then, again, I may be permitted to record the rarity, if not 
the absence, of Pemphis acidula on this part of the Java 
coast. Probably the sea-birds, to which as before shown 
this tree evidently in the main owes its dispersal, do not nest 
in any numbers on this coast. 
It 1s remarkable that two of the commonest littoral plants 
of this part of the coast’of Java, namely, Crinum asiaticum 
and Calotropis gigantea, do not occur in the Cocos-Keeling 
