. Contributions from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory. Plants. 304 Seifriz: Plants on Mt. Gedeh, Java green odor when crushed. The leaves of Gaultheria exhibit a characteristic of alpine plants, standing perpendicularly to and closely surrounding the stem. Some few ferns are still found at this altitude, and lycopodiums are quite abundant, for ex- ample, L. gedeanum. This fifth subzone is essentially the last distinctive vegetative region on Mt. Gedeh. There is, however, a small area im- mediately surrounding the present crater of Gedeh and extending a short distance down into the crater, which
. Contributions from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory. Plants. 304 Seifriz: Plants on Mt. Gedeh, Java green odor when crushed. The leaves of Gaultheria exhibit a characteristic of alpine plants, standing perpendicularly to and closely surrounding the stem. Some few ferns are still found at this altitude, and lycopodiums are quite abundant, for ex- ample, L. gedeanum. This fifth subzone is essentially the last distinctive vegetative region on Mt. Gedeh. There is, however, a small area im- mediately surrounding the present crater of Gedeh and extending a short distance down into the crater, which can be regarded as an upper subdivision of the fifth subzone, for here the plants. Fig. 7. The Javanese edelweiss, A naphalis javanica. The foliage in the right background is that of a young Albizzia montana. The tiny leaves in the left center background are Myrica javanica. The shrubs in front of the edelweiss, center and left, are dwarf Vaccinium varingiaefolium. are fewer in number and all greatly dwarfed. The vegetation which is scattered over this waste surface of lava consists of isolated and small stunted specimens of edelweiss, Vaccinium, Rhododendron, Myrica, and another Gaultheria species, G. jragr anils sima. Of the multifarious ferns ubiquitously present from the first to the fifth subzone, only one, a dwarf variety of the remarkably adaptable species, Poly podium Feei, remains to occupy the rocky lava floor of the old crater of Gedeh. Representatives of this genus are found in every zone from an altitude of 4,600 to one of 9,400 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Osborn Botanical Laboratory. [New Haven?] Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale University
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