The Vegetation of the Island of Sebesy, situated in 
the Sunda-Strait, near the Islands of the Krakatau- 
group; in the year 1921 
BY 
W. DOCTERS VAN LEEUWEN 
BUITENZORG—JAVA. 
With plate MAA VE atid XXX Vit, 
The Island of Sebesy is situated in the Sunda-Strait north fo 
the islands of the Krakatau-group. It is about 15 K.M. distant 
from the North-point of Verlaten Eiland. 
At the time of the eruptions of the Krakatau vulcano which 
completely stripped the islands of Krakatau, Verlaten Hiland 
and Lang Hiland of their vegetation, the other islands in the 
Sunda-Strait together with the coasts of Java and Sumatra were 
likewise ravaged more or less by the ash-rain and the sweeping 
tidal waves. A detailed description of these ravages is to be 
found in the work of Verserk'), who visited the ruined places 
shortly after the catastrophe, and then described their actual 
condition. Shortly before the eruption he had seen all those 
spots in their normal state. 
We are now fairly well informed as to the restoration of 
the flora of Krakatau itself, of which we possess descriptions 
by various botanists such as Trevs*), Penzic*), Erxsr*) and 
1) R. D. M. Verseex, Krakatau. Batavia 1837 and 1885. : 
2) M. Trevs, Notice sur la nouvelle flore de Krakatau. Annales du Jardin Bot. 
de Buitenzorg. Vol. VII, 1888, p. 245 : 
) 0. Penzic, Die Fortschritte der Flora von Krakatau. Ibidem. Série II, Vol. 
IIT, 1902, p. 92. j i 
4) A. Ernst, Die neue Flora der Vulkaninsel Krakatau. Vierteljahr. Schrift d. 
naturf. Gesellsch. Ziirich. Jahrg. LIT. 1907. 
