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of the fields one sees rows of kapok trees (Ceiba pentandra), 

 with their horizontally spreading branches, and the immense 

 elm-like trees of Parkia intermedia. 



Buitenzorg, the site of the famous botanical garden, is a city 

 of some thirty thousand people, of whom nearly three thousand 

 are Europeans. The great garden is widely advertised as an 

 attraction to tourists, and consequently the city contains two 

 or three good hotels. One of these, the Bellevue, is located at a 

 corner of the garden, and has been the temporary home of scores 

 of botanists. From the rear of the Bellevue one gets a charming 

 view of tropical scenery. At the foot of a hill run the dark 

 brown waters of the Tji Sadane. Across it a forest of palms and 

 fruit trees conceals the streets of the old city, and in the back- 

 ground rise the forested slopes of the huge volcano Salak. 



The newer part of the city is laid off with wide and regular 

 streets, and built up with houses and shops of a curious blend 

 of Dutch and Javanese architecture. The native part of the 

 city bears the old Javanese name of Bogor, which is seen in its 

 Latinized form in the title of various botanical works. It is a 

 maze of crooked, cobble-stoned streets, seldom more than ten 

 feet wide, and frequently only three or four, thickly lined with 

 the small native houses, and the whole is so hidden beneath a 

 wilderness of trees that it looks like a part of the original forest 

 itself. These smaller lanes are of course travelled only by 

 pedestrians, but the wider macadamized streets are crowded 

 with every sort of transportation, from the coolie with his 

 shoulder pole to the modern automobile. 



The streets offer, also, a good exhibition of the botanical 

 products of the region. They are lined with vendors, squatting 

 on their heels behind a small pile of fruits or vegetables, and 

 thronged with coolies bringing in fresh supplies. The com- 

 monest fruit is the rambutan {Nephelium lappaceiim) , which is 

 eaten as freely and as ubiquitously as the peanut in this country. 

 It has a leathery crimson rind, armed with numerous soft thorn- 

 like projections, surrounding an interior which is plum-like in 

 both appearance and taste. The closely related pulasan {Nephe- 

 lium mutahile) is also commonly seen, in which the thorns are 



