SEIFRIZ: PLANTS ON MrT. GEDEH, JAVA 287 
of many kinds. There are numerous species of Eugenia and 
Litsea, three of Viburnum, two of Turpinia, and one each of 
Euonymus (E. javanicus), Ilex (I. spicata), and Olea (O. java- 
nica). The small tree Pithecolobium montanum is one of the 
few Leguminosae to be found in these mountain forests. We 
shall meet a second tree member of this family on the very 
summit of Gedeh. Another tree 
of this and the second subzone 
which is worthy of special 
note is Vernonia arborea. This 
tree is one of the Compositae, 
yet it may be 80 feet high 
and 2% feet in diameter 
(Fic. 4). 
The fig, Ficus Ribes, is an 
interesting small tree because 
it affords a striking example 
of a rather common fruiting 
habit among tropical trees, 
namely, cauliflory. ° Saurauja 
(S. pendula, S. nudiflora, and 
five other species), whose white 
flowers with thick, waxy petals 
are often seen strewn over the 
path, is an example of incom- 
plete cauliflory. The flowers 
are borne not only on the sur- 
face of the tree trunkand larger 
limbs but at the tips of slender Fic. 4. The trunk of Vernonia 
twigs as well. Such a semi- arborea. Seog 80 foot tree is one of the 
cauliflory characterizes several Composit 
other Javanese trees. 
he foregoing list of ret subzone trees is very incom- 
plete and gives at best but a number of representative spe- 
cies. Of trees alone there are nearly two hundred species on 
Mt. Gedeh; of shrubs and herbs over three hundred and fifty 
species; and of lianes some sixty or more, totaling at least six 
hundred species of plants exclusive of the ferns, mosses and fungi. 
Lianes are numerous in the first subzone. The family 
Vitaceae .is well represented among the smaller climbers. 
