''For the area in Sumatra see
Napal Licin and for the area in Kalimantan, Borneo see
Batu Licin
Batu Licin, also written as Batulicin (abbreviated: BLN), is a district of Tanah Bumbu regency and its capital, in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Batulicin is situated on the banks of the Batulicin River and is 265 km east of the city of Banj ...
.''
Licin is an area of the
Banyuwangi Regency
Banyuwangi Regency is a regency ( id, kabupaten) of East Java province in Indonesia. This regency also known as ''the sun rise of Java'' because it is located at the easternmost end of Java Island. It serves as a port between Java and Bali. It i ...
,
East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...
,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.
Henry Ogg Forbes
Henry Ogg Forbes LLD (30 January 1851 – 27 October 1932) was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. He also described a new species of spider, '' Thomisus decipiens''.
Biography
Forbes was the son of Rev Alexander Forbes M.A. (182 ...
identified ''
Boea treubii'' of the genus ''
Boea
''Boea'' is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae, with species originating from Australia, China, India, Malaysia, Birma, Philippines, Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Vietnam an ...
'' during his expeditions from 1878 until 1883. He described the flower as "sungularly beautiful" when he saw it in full flower November 1881 near Napal Litjin at 580 feet above sea level. among calcareous blocks near the summit of
Karangnata amongst
Caelogynes and "pink-fruited" Malastomacae. He named it in honor of Dr. Treub, director of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens.
A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago ... from 1878 to 1883
Henry Ogg Forbes, Low Sampson, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885 page 279
Gallery
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Midden-Java huis van de familie Ottolander gelegen in Litjin op 437 meter hoogte TMnr 60020202.jpg, Java family home "Ottolander" Litjin at 437 m (circa 1915)
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Midden-Java bamboebos onderweg van Litjin naar de kawah op ongeveer 750 meter hoogte TMnr 60020203.jpg, Central Java Bamboo route from Litjin to the "kawah" at 750 m (circa 1915)
References
Banyuwangi Regency
Districts of East Java
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