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On the beach and somewhat behind it in scattered 

 tussocks; more in the interior not seen. 



Palmae. 



//. Cocos nucifera L. See p. 39, No. 3. 



A grove of several specimens rather far 1 ) from the beach 

 and a few meters above the floodmark. Several of the 

 trees bore ripe fruits; on the ground beneath many fallen 

 nuts were lying, some of which had germinated. We also 

 found some nuts that had been cut open, which proves 

 that these trees had already been visited by man 2 ). The 

 older trees of the group seemed, by their size, to have 

 reached an age of about ten years. Nearer to the beach 

 some scattered specimens of this species were found. 



Orchidaceae ^). 



12. Arundina speciosa Bl. See p. 107. 



Here and there in open stony places in the Sacchanim- 

 jungle. 



13. Spathog/ottis plicata Bl. See p. 107. 



Here and there on ridges and steep walls. 



14. Cymbidium Finiaysonianum Lindl. 



Orchid usually living on trees, very rarely on the ground, 

 found here and there in West- and Central-Java beneath an 

 altitude of 500 m. in sunny or moderately shadowed localities, 

 on trees planted along road-sides, in teak-forests, in thin 



v ) According to Ernst | Neue Flora Vulkanlnsel Krakatau (1907), p. 70] this group 

 was + 400 m. distant from the sea, hut according to the maps in jaarverslag van den 

 lopographischen Dienst in Ned. -Indie (Year-book of the Topographical Survey Service 

 in the Dutch Indies), 1908, plate XXIII and in Handelingen van het Eerste Nederlandsch 

 Indisch Natuurwetenschappelijk Congres (Transactions of the First Dutch Indian Congress 

 of Natural Science 1920) about 75 m. It seems to me that the last given distance is 

 too short, but that given by Ernst too long: between 1906 and 1908 the land cannot 

 have been washed away over a breadth of niore than 300 m. 1 for me estimate that 

 the coco-nut grove was about 150 200 m. distant from the sea. 



2 ) I his fact was already mentioned by me in |aarboek van het Departement van 

 l.andbouw in Nederlandsch Indie (Year-book of the Department of Agriculture in the 

 Dutch Indies! 1906, p. 4. Valeton does not mention to have found coco-palms in 1905. 

 As it is not known that any European has visited the island between the trips of 1905 

 and 1906 it is probable that native fishermen had consumed the contents of the nuts, 

 as they are wont to do. 



3 ) According to Ernst | Neue Flora Vulkaninsel Krakatau (1907), p. 33] besides 

 the species recorded above also a species of Phajus was found in the interior of Krakatao 

 in 1906. But in his list of finds on pp. 43, 44 he does not mention this genus for 

 the island. 1 myself did not see it there in 1906 but found it in 1908 in ravines at an 

 altitude of 200 m. and more. 



