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Java, the second, as a rule, hyperparasitizing on the first ') No. 3 

 and 4 are inhabitants of the beach and of low, level coral-islands. 

 No. 5 is a tree occurring in the Javanese forests from the plains up 

 to an altitude of 1400 m. It is therefore quite possible that Teysmann 

 collected only on the shore and immediately behind it; the list of 

 his plants gives no indication as to whether he penetrated into 

 the interior of the island. Consequently nothing at all is known of 

 the former flora of the interior and especially of the top. It would 

 not be difficult to do some guess-work, but about Krakatao already 

 far too many guesses were ventured forth. 



In the northern part of Krakatao a series of eruptions began on 

 Sunday, May 20th 1883 which about 3 months afterwards (Monday, 

 Aug. 27th 1883) culminated in and ended by the blowing up and 

 plunging into the sea of the entire island barring the southern half 

 of the Rakata-cone. In this cone there was also a crater, but 

 this took no part in the eruption. On August 10th and 11th, when on 

 the northern part of Krakatao only a few naked tree-trunks-) were 

 left standing, t/ie entire soutliern half of the cone still bore a dense 

 vegetation 3 )- Two weeks afterwards this cone was covered by ashes 

 and pumice which, as is almost generally believed up to the pres- 

 ent time, entirely destroyed the vegetation' 1 ). 



J ) On Rutaceae (Euodia) Viscum articulatum is sometimes found as a primary 

 parasite. 



2 ) Verbeek, Krakatau, Dutch Edition (1888) p. 26; French Edition (1925) p. 27. 



3 ) Verbeek, Krakatau, Dutch Edition (1888) p. 28; French Edition (1925), p 28. 



4 ) See however page 9, footnote '1. 



