284 SEIFRIZ: PLANTS ON MT. GEDEH, JAVA 
ing from the mountain side and the several fumaroles in the 
crater emitting fumes of sulphur are the only indications that 
Mt. Gedeh is a volcano in the dormant state. Mt. Pangerango 
(Fic. 1), whose beautiful conical form commands admiration, 
{ The superb ] , Altingia 
excelsa. This tree (inthe center backeround) 
is 150 feet high. Note the straight uniform 
u The tree-fern is an Alsophila, 42 
feet high. 
and Mt. Sela are both 
extinct. The botanical ex- 
plorations described on the 
following pages = pri- 
marily to Mt. eh, 
though some mention is 
made of plants of interest 
found on the two neigh- 
boring peaks. 
Midway up the slope 
of Mt. Gedeh is the gov- 
ernment experimental sta- 
tion of Tjibodas (‘white 
river’). The laboratory, 
Garden contains numerous 
interesting plants, notably 
the renowned grass trees, 
Xanthorrhoea Preissit 
(PLATE 15, FIG.1). These 
liliaceous trees are natives 
nahs. The twin specimens 
in the Tjibodas Garden are 
familiar to botanists 
through the illustration in Haberlandt’s “Botanische Tropen- 
reise.” The trees have doubled in size since Haberlandt saw 
them thirty years ago. 
Back of Tjibodas, extending to the summits of Mts. Gedeh, 
Pangerango, and Sela, is a virgin forest of supreme beauty, with 
a flora unsurpassed, if indeed it is approached, by that of any 
other similar region in the world. One of the most striking feat- 
