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formation, which connects immediately with the dense coco-palm 
jungles, a feature which is absent from Krakatau. More inward 
there is a wooded plain after which begin the slopes of the 
mountain which is cone-shaped and rises gradually from the 
levels. The Casuarinas which are so prevalent on Krakatau and 
especially on the North-coast of Verlaten Eiland, are here on 
Sebesy confined to a narrow band on the peninsula of Pulu 
Pandjang, whose vegetation corresponds with that of Verlaten 
Eiland in other respects as well. It was already visible with 
the naked eye that a few species of plants were present in 
extraordinary numbers. Conspicuous dark-green patches were 
formed by a species of Musa, but as no flowering material 
could be gathered this species has not been identified. Over 
these wildernesses of Musae rose up tall trees with bright 
trunks, part of these trees being leafless. It afterwards appeared 
they were specimens of Ficus variegata Bl. Other kinds of trees 
also reared their crowns far above the Musae, though it was 
not possible to distinguish their nature from afar; upon in- 
spection they proved to be species of Ficus; a species of Antho- 
cephalus and one of Artocarpus had also reached considerable 
dimensions. 
The island however is not simply cone-shaped, as is already 
visible from the subjoined map (see plate XX XVII). On sailing round 
the island this becomes clearer still, for it them appears that 
there are two tops, the higher of which the Gunung Sebesy 
proper is 844 M. high, but it is concealed trom the spectator 
at the anchoring place by the secondary top which rises to 
about 750 M. From the main summit the island drops away 
steeply to the South-west; the rocks advance right to the coast 
whilst there are only a few narrow stretches of sandy beach, 
contiguous to the cliffs and dotted with blocks of tumbled rock. 
We only succeeded once in landing here, on April 27th. The 
sea was as smooth as a miror except for a mighty swell which — 
made the landing perilous. As far as we could make out from 
the sea the flora is, however, quite similar everywhere; also 
on the steep grades are perceived the big masses of Musae 
marked with the interspersed bright trunks of Ficus variegata 
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