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Leading right and left from this central avenue run other smaller avenues, roads, and paths, conducting to the different plots in which the various families of plants are contained, in accordance with the system of arrangement introduced by Teysmann.
History of the Buitenzorg gardens Teysmann Scheffer Three separate branches Horticultural garden Mountain garden Botanical garden Dr. Treub Lady Raffles' monument Pandanus with aërial roots Cyrtostachys renda Stelecho-karpus Urostigma Brazilian palms Laboratories and offices Number of men employed Scientific strangers.
The salary of this single official was taken from the funds appropriated to the maintenance of the park. It was to this post that J. E. Teysmann was appointed in 1830. Educated at one of the primary schools in Holland, and originally employed as an under-gardener, he had in that capacity accompanied Governor Van den Bosch to Java. It bore the inscription
The general herbarium has been arranged on the Kew model. Besides a large collection of plants made by Zollinger between 1845 and 1858, it contains the valuable collections gathered by Teysmann, between 1854 and 1870, throughout the Malay Archipelago. Specimens by Kurz and Scheffer are also found, together with other recent collections of plants from Borneo and adjacent islands.
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