TORREYA 



September, 1915. 

 Vol. 15 No. 9 



BOTANICAL SKETCHES FROM THE ASIATIC 

 TROPICS 



By Henry Allan Gleason NEW YOV 



{Continued from August Torreya) ^'-^TANJCm 



III. JAVA 



The numerous walks and drives which branch off from Canary 

 Avenue ramify in so many directions through the botanical 

 garden that it is impossible to get a good impression of the place 

 from a single walk through it. The casual tourist is guided along 

 the main avenues only, and emerges with a confused jumble of 

 impressions, but the botanist will explore all the by-paths, and 

 devote a day or more to each section. Every part of the garden 

 affords opportunity for interesting observations, and some of 

 them are presented below. The order is that in which one might 

 naturally study the garden, beginning at the main entrance, 

 passing east to the Island, crossing again to the Proeftuin, and 

 returning through the farther northern end of the garden to 

 Canary Avenue and the Groote Weg. 



Leguminous trees of many species are planted freely through- 

 out the garden, but the chief collection of them is near the main 

 entrance. It includes remarkably few species, for a tropical 

 garden, and the liana forms are all relegated to the Island, with 

 the exception of the famous specimens of Entada scandens. 



This huge climber has a basal diameter of about a foot. It 

 ascends diagonally through the air about forty feet to a Parkia 

 tree, 'and branches in it at a height of about sixty feet. One 

 branch loops down, and, rebranching at a height of ten feet, 

 swings into two trees, distant respectively about sixty and eighty 

 [No. 8, Vol. 15, of Torreya, comprising pp. 161-186, was issued 30 August, 1915.] 



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