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fougéres de petite taille, et fort peu de plantes herbacées,” and further on 
(3, iv. 602), “Tous les environs du havre proprement dit sont occupés par des 
foréts & état de nature, situées sur un sol enti¢rement madréporique, qui 
s’éléve en pente trés douce ” ; and, finally, Wallace, in 1852 (6, 173), describes 
“the Dorey promontory is a raised coral reef, and, geologically speaking, a 
very recent one. The beach is a mass of dead and broken coral, not yet 
ground into sand, quite impracticable for walking, and from this beach up 
into the jungle, and even on to the hill, to the height of 200’ or 300’, there is 
scarcely a perceptible change in the coral rock, and the masses of coral and 
shells that everywhere strew the surface. In some of the gulleys, however, 
I found traces of a core of stratified rock.” 
I did not work over any of the gullies, as once off the “ korang” range 
the conditions are all secondary, every inch of ground having been under 
present or past cultivation. 
With regard to the beach, the coral mentioned by Wallace had possibly 
been washed up by a heavy N.W. monsun, as our own beaches are often 
covered with shingle during the winter gales, to be dispersed again later. 
At the period of my stay it. was certainly not an apparent factor. 
On the “korang” the soil is so thin that the coral is always visible, 
mostly covered with dead leaves. The most interesting portion is along the 
flat-topped summit where the surface is more even and advantageous to 
plants, and in parts small soak-areas hold shallow standing water. The 
immediate flanks proved barren of results, being very dry with great over- 
hanging outcrops of pure “ korang ”’-like cliffs, too porous to offer much hold 
for plants. ; 
On what may perhaps be referred to as the drainage-line of the streams 
issuing from the range, quite a different type of undergrowth prevailed, 
almost luxuriant in character, comprising chiefly ferns, Zingiberaceous and 
Araceous plants. 
Trees.—Most conspicuous were fine isolated examples of that magnificent 
palm *Pigajetta pilaris. Too beautiful to cut down, I only took some old 
fruit and the measurements of the immense leaves,—those shed, with the 
old flowering rhachises, remaining piled around each tree, which in con- 
sequence form isolated spots in the forest. Dr. Beccari, however, with his 
personal knowledge of this locality and expert interest, had no difficulty in 
determining this splendid species. * Ficus myriocarpa, *F’. celebica, * F. botryo- 
earpa, and °F. brachiata, the two latter with green receptacles which all 
contained water, were very general, with the large-leaved °Macaranga riparia, 
*Mallotus tiliefolia, Aglaia Gibbsee, with large branching white racemes, 
* Euonymus javanicus, and * Albizzia moluceana. 
Climbing plants—All the trunks of the trees were covered with root- 
climbing epiphytes, as in the “korang” forest of the inundation-zone of 
