HI. The Author's Excursions in the Island. 



It may be useful to give here a short account of the excursions wliicli the author had occasion to 

 undertake during- his stay on Cyprus. 



I landed at Larnaka on March, 3rd, 1905, after a long and ratlier adventurous voyage from 

 Norway, with short stays only in England and Egypt. My first visit was to the office of Mr. Z. D. Pie- 

 KiDES, consul of Norway and Sweden, to whom I brought an official letter of introduction from the Depart- 

 ment of Foreign Affairs in Christiania. I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the infinite 

 kindness and readiness in every way which I on this and so many subsequent opportunities was met with by 

 the consul and his son Mr. Luke Pierides. Another visit was paid to Mr. C. D. Cobham, commissioner 

 of Larnaka, who also took a lively interest in my researches and who placed a room in one of tiic Govcrn- 

 ments store-houses at Larnaka at my disposal for the safe preservation of my collections. 



During my whole .stay in Cyprus Larnaka formed my base of operations; from here I made 

 shorter and longer excursions in various directions, extending over the greatest part of the island, and 

 here I successively stored my collections until the day of my departure. 



My most important excursions and travels are enumerated in the following; the routes pursue<l arc 

 marked out in the map that follows (fig. 5). 



a. ;5. Ill— y. IIL Excursion to Hagia Napa and Ormidia. The longest stay was made in the old 

 abandoned monastery at Hag. Napa, in the neighbourhood of which I found the flora of the early 

 spring already in full development. 



b. 10. 111—13. IIL Short excursions in the neighbourhood of Larnaka. 



c. 14. Ill— 18. III. Excursion to Cape Kiti, Mazoto and Alethriko, partly together with Mi'. On. 

 Glasznek, photographer at Larnaka and known as an ornithological collector. 



d. 19. Ill — 23. III. Short excursions in the neighbourhood of Larnaka. 



e. 24. 111—24. IV. Excursion to Nikosia, the Messaria and the Karpassian peninsula. — 24. Ill, 

 drive to Nikosia with the mail-carriage; during the following days station there, official calls and heibori- 

 sations in the neighbourhood of the town; 2. IV start for Messaria with my own donkeys which carried 

 myself, ray servant and my luggage during most of my subsequent excursions on the island ; 3.— 4. IV 

 stay at Vatili, 5.— (i. IV at Kuklia, 7.-8. IV at Paralimni with excursion to Hagia Napa and 

 Capo Greco, 9.-10. IV at Varosha (suburb of Famagusta), 11.- 12. IV at Salamis, in the house of 

 the Forest Department, 13.— 15. IV at Hag. Theodoros with excursion to Valla and Capo Elaea, 

 1(5.-17. IV at Heptakomi, 18. IV at Komi Kebir, 19. IV at Davlos, 20.-21. IV at Ardana (with 

 ascent to the castle of Kautara), 22. IV at Lefkoniko, 23. IV at Pyla, 24. IV return to Larnaka. 

 In the days from 19.— 22. IV I was accompanied by a forest officer, Mr. Geokgios Vassiliou, from 

 whose great experience and knowledge with regai'd to forest mattei'S I benefited much. This journey 

 gave me an opportunity of getting acquainted with the rich spring-flora of the lower regions of the 

 island, and especially of the Messaria. 



f. 29. IV — 9. VI. Excursion to the southern, western and northern coast-districts. — 29. JV 

 sojourn at Alethriko, 30. IV— 1. V at Kophino, 2.-4. V at Kalavaso, 5.-7. V at Limassol, 8.-9. V 

 at Akrotiri, 10. — 11. V at Episkopi, 12.— 13. V at Alektora, 14.-16. V at Ktima (Nev,- Paphos), 



