Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 29 1 



more comfortable, Cyprus will to quite another extent than hitherto be visited by foreign travellers, who 

 during' the warm season will find an agrcable retreat in the wood-regions of the Troodos-mountaina. 



The forest-area of the island is geographically divided into two natural, sharply sepai-ated, 

 piincipal groups. Of tiiese the greatest and most important one comprises all the wood-tracts of the Troodos- 

 mountain-ridge from Stavrovuni in the east to Lavramis in the west. The other group comprises all the 

 forests attached to the northern mountain-ridge. On the map-sketch (Fig. 116) will best be seen the 

 situation and dimensions of the separate wood-areas. This map has, with the kind permission of 

 Mr. A. K. BoviLL, been copied from a map, worked out by him on a much larger scale, and which is 

 kept in the office of "The Forest Department" at Nikosia. In ail the principal features it also agrees 

 with a map accompanying the above quoted report from 1909 by D. E. Hutchins. What has been marked 

 on the map as woods of the low-lands, beyond the two principal groups, almost exclusively consists of 

 juniper-scrubs, which for phy to-geographical reasons I have chosen to class among the maquis-societies, 

 and which T have therefore dealt with in the preceding chapter. 



With support in communications from A. K. Bovill, D. E. Hutchins has in 1909') given the 

 following statement of the present area of demarkated forests in Cyprus: 



1st Class Timber Forests: Sq. miles 



Paphos 100.00 



Troodos i2M 



Adelphi 48.08 



Makhaeras 15.26 



Hag. Irini 3.00 



Kataldag 8.10 



Kavalis 2.54 219.67 



Mixed Timber and Scrub Forests: 



Limasol 25.88 



Kormakiti 3.75 



Korno 1.00 



Lapithos 2.00 



Karmi 3.50 



Buffavento 3.50 



Plataniotissa 1.33 



Paphos Main Forest • • • 133.00 173.9^ 



Scrub Forests • • 306.37 



Sq. miles 700.00 



Thus the total area of demarkated forests in Cyprus, including the scrub-forests, should at present 

 constitute about 700 Engl. sq. miles or 1814.4 sq. km., 0: 19 per cent of the whole surface of the island. 

 If we count otf the scrub-forests, among which the greater part has chiefly the character of maquis, 

 393.6:3 sq. miles or 1020.3 .sq. km. = 10.7 per cent of the surface of the island are left. 



As remnants from the former greater distribution of the forests we have already in the preceding 

 chapter mentioned the few isolated specimens of Pinus halepensis, Ceratonia Siliqua, Olea europara, 

 Crataegus Azarolus a. 0., which are often met with in the maquis-societies in the different parts of the 

 island. The huge oaks (Quercus lufsitanica, s. 1.) which in many places are found in single specimens 

 and in small groups in the outskirts and outside the real wood-tracts, will probably in most cases have 

 to be regarded in a similar way. These oaks are frequently found, especially on both sides of the Troodos- 



1) Hutchins, Report on Cyprus Forestry, p. 14. 



