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stands in the undergrowth. A large yellow raspberry, Rubas 

 alpestris, tempts one to taste it only to find that it is frightfully 

 sour. 



The notch between the peaks of Gedeh and Pangerango, where 

 the third subzone ends at an altitude of nearly 8,000 feet, is the 



Fig. 6. The crown of an Alsophila. 



home of one of the most exquisite of all tropical plants, the tree 

 fern. The tree fern, although always associated'with the tropics, 

 is in reality subtropical. It is not found with such truly tropical 

 plants as the cocoanut. On the contrary, it occurs at relatively 

 high altitudes, where the temperature is moderate. As a group, 

 the ferns are generally regarded as shade loving plants, but I am 

 inclined to believe that it is not their apparent shade loving 

 proclivities which determine the regions in which ferns in general 



