Volume 8 
Number 6 
The Plant World 
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JUNE, 1905 
A BOTANIST’S TRIP TO JAVA. 
By Francis Ramaley, 
Professor in the University of Colorado. 
Any intelligent traveler should enjoy a trip to Java, but for a 
botanist there are many features of special interest. No region 
of the world has a more luxuriant tropical flora and nowhere 
else is there found such a garden as that maintained by the Dutch 
government at Buitenzorg. 
Java is a long way from the United States, but it does not 
seem so far from home as in the old days before the American 
occupation of the Philippines. One may go to Java by way of 
Europe or by way of Japan. The time is about the same either 
way. Going west from San Francisco Japan is reached in 
eighteen days and Hong Kong in ten days more. From there it 
takes six days to Singapore at the end of the Malay Peninsula. 
Then a short two-day. voyage brings the traveler to Tanjong 
Priok, the port at which most visitors arrive on the island. 
To one with little knowledge of the tropics, Java presents a 
series of unknown beauties. 
“ Each morn unfolds some fresh surprise.” 
The small coral islands, fringed with waving palm trees, make 
a pleasing introduction to the tropical luxuriance which crowds 
in upon us on every side. 
I found the custom-house officials at Tanjong Priok by no 
means exacting. In fact they passed everything without so 
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