Description of plates 15-17 
PLATE 15 
Fic. 1 (at left). The grass trees, Xanthorrhoea Preissii, in the Tjibodas 
Garden. These liliaceous trees are natives of the Australian savannahs. 
Fic. 2 (at right). The stately bird’s nest fern, Asplenium nidus. 
PLATE 16 
Fic. 1 (at left). An casieanpeeee nidus suapencied at the end of a slender 
branch. Note other g out of the base of the Asplenium. 
Fic. 2 (at right). The upper limits of the second subzone. The larger 
trees (the maximum size at this altitude) are Engelhardtia. The smaller 
trees are Pygeum, Gaver rpus, Meliosma, and Schefflera. Disporum is 
abundant on the fais t floor (lower right corner). The terrestrial ferns 
are chiefly Dryopteris Feed. Asplenium caudatum is the (epiphytic) 
fern with long slender fronds to the right of the coolie. 
abundant mosses in the profuse epiphytic moss growth is Papillaria fuscescens, 
the typical festooning moss of the second subzone. 
PLATE 17 
Fic. 1 (above). The moss section of the fourth subzone. The largest 
tree (left center) is Schima Noronhae. The smaller trees are Polyosma, Sym- 
gece, and Rapanea. The liane is Vaccinium varingiaefolium (V.Teysmannt). 
Few Vaccinium trees are to be found in the lower half of this zone. Note the 
thick padding of moss. The moss covering the large tree is paggststte CS 
pinnatum. Suspended from the liane are the tiny epiphytic ferns, Polypodium 
cucullatum and Hymenophyllum paniculiflorum. 
Fic. 2 (below). The lichen section of the fourth subzone. Note the 
complete absence of moss. This is the last stand of trees on Mt. Gedeh. 
The trees are almost entirely Vaccinium varingiaefolium, the same species 
which grows as a liane a few hundred feet lower (see FIG. 1 
