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SOME CRYPTOGAMS FROM ‘CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 
: By A. & E. S. Gepp. 
‘Tus small collection of cryptogams was made by Mr. H. N. 
Ridley during October, 1904, at Christmas Island. This island is 
situated in the Indian Ocean nearly 200 miles to the south of Java, 
in §. lat. 10° 25’, E. long. 105° 49. It vhs not be confused with 
the Polynesian island of. the same name in N. lat. 1° 40’, W. long. 
156° 20’. An excellent “ Mdnaatith of “Christmas Island (Indian 
Ocean),’’ by Dr. C. W. Andrews, was issued by the Trustees of the 
British Museum i in 1900. It treats of the physical features, geology, 
and natural Mees being founded on the observations and col- 
lections made b ndrews during a visit extending over ten 
months in 1897-8. “To this valuable record we are indebted for 
the following details. 
The island has an area of about forty-three square miles, and in 
places reaches an altitude of over 1000 ft. It is the flattened summit 
of a submarine mountain standing in very deep malas It is covered 
ion, a dr 
, an sm 
for example, near the- Waterfall (Pac baeny, ohixe at low water 
the reef is partly dry, but mostly covered with less than a foot of 
water. The beach at these places is composed of a varying slope 
of coral shingle, mich at Flying Fish Cove forms a crescent some 
five hundred yards long. 
No alge pave hitherto been recorded from the island. 
_ that during the earlier months of the year—the rainy season—the 
wind occasionally shifts round and blows hard from the N. or N.E., 
at which time the sea breaks with great violence » the reef in 
Flying Fish ore which is situated on the north coast. 
Wai Coy 
no indication as to whether the specimens were found growing in 
r 0 ges or had th beach. 
JOURNAL OF Boraxy.—Vor. 43. [Dec. 1905.) 2B 
