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April 23rd, T was put ashore in the motor-launch of the 
steamer ‘Brak’ at the Northern point of the peninsula Pulu 
Pandjang. This peninsula is a narrow tongue of land which bars 
a long narrow and shallow bay (see the map on plate XXXVI). 
The soil of the peninsula consists mainly of sand mixed with 
pumice stone, and at the free northern extremity there has 
formed a small sand-flat bearing many well-known plants such 
as may occur in similar places. At Sebesy this is probably the 
only place where this type of vegetation can properly develop; 
compared with the wide beach at the Northpoint of Verlaten 
Kiland this bit of sands at Sebesy is decidedly small. 
The flat beach was largely set with Ipomoea pes Caprae 5w., 
Remirea maritima Aubl., Canavalia lineata DC., Spinifex litto- 
reus Merr.; in addition, there were everywhere dotted about 
sprouts of Calophyllum inophyllum L., Hibiscus tiliaceus L., 
Dodonaea viscosa Jack., and Desmodium umbellatum DC. The 
band of sandy flats was only about ten yards broad and was 
hedged off on the landside by a jungle of bushes of which Des- 
modium umbellatum DC. formed a large proportion. Among 
them there were also bushes of Premna integrifolia L., Guet- 
tarda speciosa L., and Dodonaea viscosa Jack. Walking down 
the beach along the sea one soon gets to a very narrow belt 
of Casuarina forest consisting ot a few rows of old trees standing 
along some thirty or forty yards of beach, and of about the 
same proportions as those on the beach of Verlaten Hiland. 
The trees stand close to the water’s edge and. are frequently 
swept down so that many specimens were found prone with 
their tops in the sea. The Chemara forest was a dense con- 
fusion of all sorts of herbs trees and shrubs grown over with 
creepers. The following kinds of trees were to be found in the 
Shadow of the Chemara-forest: Macaranga Tanarius L., Guet- 
tarda speciosa L., Hibiscus tiliaceus L., Dodonaea viscosa Jack., 
Terminalia Catappan L., Morinda citrifolia L., Pandanus tectorius 
Sol., Barringtonia speciosa Kurz, Carica Papaya L.; all of them 
plants that also occur in the old Chemara-forest on Krakatau 
and Verlaten Eiland. The bushes present there were: Desmodium 
umbellatum DC., Caesalpinia Crista L., and thin specimens of 
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