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About the three small maps at the end of this Flora need only 

 be said that the finding-places are given as exactly as possible; 

 it seemed only necessary to indicate the border of the calcareous 

 territories. The different abbreviations are explained in the exten- 

 sive list of the sites. 



While for more detailed information 1 refer to the work by 

 K. Martin: Bericht tiber eine Reiae nach Mederlandisch West 

 Indien 1887 and 1888, from which the greater part of what fol- 

 lows has been derived, a short account many here sufiice. 



Curasao. 



Of the terminal points of Curagao Westpunt lies at 69° 11' W. 

 Long, and 12° 23' N. Lat. and Punt Canon at 68° 49' W. Long, 

 and 12° 3' N. Lat. ; the greatest length of the island is 58 kilo- 

 metres, its surface ± 450 square kilometres. 

 The long-drawn island is a hilly country, the hills consisting of 

 diabase or being of cretaceous origin, the whole being surrounded 

 by a layer of a coral-limestone formation. On the narrower 

 part of the island the nothern and southern coral-limestone 

 masses join and reach there the considerable height of 90 M. 

 The inland hills are in East Curagao lower than in the West and 

 give a general impression of a low undulating hilly country; the 

 tops are not much higher there than 60 M., as a rule; the high 

 top nearer the North side (Ronde klip) is the only inland hill 

 which is covered with a coral mass. It is 130 M. high. 

 The calcareous territory of East Curagao reaches a height of 60 M. 

 in some places of the North coast, on "the South coast it is much 

 lower and only in the Tafelberg (St. Barbara) reaches a height 

 of 200 M. This Mount Barbara with its gentle slope towards the 

 sea and abrupt vertical termination towards the interior is the 

 type of the many chalk ridges at the South side of Curagao. 

 From Seroe Seinpost a large plain extends eastwards and also 

 round the Schottegat we find a fairly large plain, forming a low 

 hilly country to the East and extending to the West as far as 

 Mont Plaisant. The chalk ridge, extending along the North coast 

 from Schottegat to the neighbourhood of Mont Plaisant, reaches 

 70 metres in some places. At the South coast the chalk ridge is 

 more interrupted in these same parts and isolated mountains like 

 Veerisberg and Seroepretoe are found as chalk rests. (± 140 M.). 

 In the middle of the island a high chalk ridge extends from 



