Remarks on tlie most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 



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copies only. Such a one may be found near each of the following village.s: Yerakiaes (near Kalopanagioti), 

 PedouUa, Lagoudhera and Pharmakas. Of these ones, that of Lagoudhera, a village situated high up in 

 the northern slope of Adelphi, is distinguished for its unique dimensions. The tree is to be found in a 

 shadowy valley above the village, surrounded by walnut trees. Although some of the branches are 

 broken it is still a rarely beautiful tree with a richly ramified, shadowy corolla. The girth of the 

 trunk is 8.0 m. and the biggest diametre of the corolla is 23 m.') I have measured the chestnut tree 

 near Pharmakas too; this tree is not very big now, about 6 m. high, with' a girth of 1.95 m. ; it must 

 be very old, however, for one can see even now on the same root remnants of another stool which must 



Fig. 83. 01(1 Trees of Liqiwhiiuhar stijraciflua at Antiplioniti, 



have been far bigger.— Walnut-trees (.hajJans regia) aie also chiefly found in the same mountainous 

 regions, where they get on very well often attaining a considerable height. Near Pharmakas I saw a 

 walnut-tree the girth of which was 5.87 m., and there were many others nearly as thick.— Laurels 

 (Lnnrus nohiUs) are wild in several places in the lower parts of the mountains and are also often seen 

 planted in the gardens of the villages. — Liquidamlxtr styracifiua has been planted of old in the gardens 

 of two monasteries. Hag. Neophytos near Paphos and Antiplioniti in the northern part of the island. The 

 tree is cultivated here to give incense to the churches; it is regarded as a sacred tree and is called 

 l\i\oH i'si-tTf\ or ^uXo'j Tou ypioTO'j. Fig. 85, a photo, which I took in the convent garden of Hag. Neophytos, 



V) I have been told that this tree in good seasons can give up to 800 okes of chestnuts (I oke = 2^/4 lbs), which 

 may he sold in Limassol at 3 piastre pr. oke; that makes & 13, 6 sh., 6 piastre, which sum will he sufficient to live on for an 

 average village famil}' during a whole year. 



