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on such a fertile soil, the damage done is not so very great, 
unlike what is seen on the Sandwich Islands, where the cattle 
have in several places completely ruined the vegetation, since 
the plants could not recover with sufficient rapidity. 
Here follow the descriptions of the excursions made over the 
island, to be followed up in conclusion with an account of the 
present state of the vegetation. 
April 22nd. In the morning we arrived at the N.-E. side of 
the island. The ship came to anchor not far from the coast 
and moreover near the little coral island called Huismans-Eiland, 
(Pulu Mengunang) which lies near the peninsula of Pulu Pandjang. 
(See map on plate XXXVII). The latter has the shape of a long 
narrow tongue of land bounding a shallow bay. 
Right in front of the anchorage there is a strip of sandy 
beach at the rear of which the cocopalm forest begins immediately. 
Where the beach and the cocopalm forest meet there are several 
typical beach plants and representatives of the Barringtonia 
formation, such as Ischaemum muticum L., growing either on 
the beach itself or in the coco forest; in the former case trailing 
their branches along the ground, in the latter case more upright; 
Vigna marina Merr., Desmodium umbellatum D. C., Hibiscus 
tiliaceus L., and Terminalia Catappan L., a few of these latter 
trees being dispersed here and there. Conspicuous are also the 
large numbers of Leucaena glauca Benth., which are clearly 
marked off from the rest of the vegetation by their darkgreen 
foliage. This plant does not occur on Krakatau, on Sebesy it 
forms here and there a dense but thin-stemmed forest. The 
plant is frequently used by natives as a hedgeplant, and would 
very likely have been imported and afterwards run to bush. 
In the groves of these trees the soil bears but a scanty under- 
growth, just an occasional Cocos nucifera L., or a Pandanus 
tectorius Sol., which can even grow up in deep shade. The 
ground is usually bare, with an occasional Orchis: Eulophia 
‘macrostachya Lindl. From the anchorage a foot path leads to 
the interior, crossing at first a very jungle of mixed vegetation 
among which one is struck with a large number of fruit trees. 
