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a small distance further on stood, newl}- dead, an exotic Lef2:uminosa 

 (Gardens' Xo. 1404) which has never l)een determined. The 

 Gardenias and Ixoras had altog-ether gone ; but nippeastrum had 

 persisted at the foot of some big Albizzia ; , and Tacca cristaia,. 

 Jack, was in plenty perhaps as a relic from cultivation. 



The jungle itself was about forty-five to fifty feet from the 

 aipper leaves to the soil, as is shown by the measurements of n 

 numl)er of the larger secondary trees composing it, (vide the annexed 

 table, where they are in the order of their height with their cir- 

 cumference in a second column). The size of the largest tree of 

 each species in the ta1)le can be found easily, because the authority 

 for the scientific name is appended only where the species first 

 finds mention. Into the trees climbed a few woody climbers, e.g. 



Tetracera assa, T)V. 

 Arfahotri/s suareoleny. Blume,? 

 Unona discolor, Yahl. 

 Caemlpinia Nuga, Ait. 

 Uncaria pteropoda, Miq. 

 Smila.r. harbata. Wall. 

 Smilax niegacarpa, A. DG. 

 Calanm.s. 



A limited num1)er of e])iphytes were present, e.g. 



P.sychotria ovoidea, Wall. 



Acriop.ns javanica, Eeinw. 



Pleopeliis sinuom, Wall. 



Drijnwglossuni pUoselloUlcs. Presl, 



A croffich^im .scan'dens. Bory, 

 most of them growing in the forks of the branches of trees of 

 ArthrophyUnm, but a few on Admandra diimosa and Fagraea 

 jragrans. Pleopeliis sinvosa was tenanted by ants. 



Herbs under the trees were few. Tacca cristaia. Jack, was the 

 commonest, and. l)esides nippmstruni in one spot and the grasses 

 and sedges of another spot as given above, almost the onlv herba- 

 ceous plant. 



A List of the Ti;i;i:s ahovk ;!() Fekt ik Height, excluding 



THE FEW LARGE TREES AVHICII WERE NOT FELLED. 



