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A NATUnALJSrS WANDEniNGS 



germinating, Thoiigli 60,000 pknts were successfully raised 

 from it by the late Mr, M*Ivor, I only received the £50, 



"The seed taken by the Netherlands Grovcrnment cost it 

 barely £50. 



" Such then is the * story * attaching to the now fanioua 

 Cineliona Led^/erima, the source of nntohl wealth to Java, 

 Ceylon, and, I hope, to India and elsewhere. I am proud 

 to see my * dream* of close on forty years ago is realised; 

 KurofiP is no longer dependent on Peru or Bolivia for its 

 supply of life-giviug quinine." 



In my new locality I experienced, as at Kosala, the same 

 diffieiilty in obtaiinng herbarium specimens of the great trees, 

 with a better opportunity of verifying the fact that the bulk 

 of those that had been felled were really barren. The fiillen 

 trunks, however, afforded an abundant harvest of ferns ; while 

 on the snrroundiug mountains, several of th(*ra quiescent 

 volcanoes, which were higher than any I had yet visited, I 

 was happy in gathering many shrubs an<i plants which I had 

 not before seen. Close to my door grew one, our common rib- 

 grass (PhnUiffQ major), which I would have passed by at home 

 as a rank weed, but T gathered it here witli real affection, as 

 much " for auld acquaintance fsake,*' as in sympathy with its 

 distant exile and inexorable durance, with a lew compatriots, 

 on these unquiet peaks, which the hot surrounding plains 

 liave made an island-iu-an-island prison, more hopeless to 

 escajw from than the most ocean-compassed spcyck. kt 4500 

 feet above the sea I found a small species of Iltjjm-irnm on 

 wet ground, like our own Marsh 8t. John*s-wort (JX elodes) \ 

 here and there, about 5000 feet, api>eared purple violets 

 ( r. iiliiUt\ imireitsing in abundiince with the ascent tli rough 

 wuo<ls of magnolias and chestnuts, their sti'ms clothed with 

 orchids, Freycinetias, climbing aroids and lyeopods, and' on 

 whim ibmr the dreaded Upas dropped its fruits. 



Beneath the shady canopy of tliis tall fig no native will, if 

 lie knows it, dare to rest, nor will he jmss between its stem and 

 the wind, so strong is his belief in its evil influence. 



In the centre of a tea estate not far off from my encampment 

 steod, because no one could be found daring enough to cut it 

 down, an inunensc specimen, which had long l>een a nuisance to 

 the proprietor on account of the lightning every now and then 



