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Nwcli-bok [P<etlerialaHiig!nos(i), Kyonng-ehot {^fuzoneuron citcul/itdim), Kyonng-n;}-et- 

 nweli {Pterohbium mttcroptcnun), Su-yit {Acacia pennata), Su-pwOt-kn-lu-iiwtli {Acacia 

 glaitceacens), JJouk-trt-Iong [Dalbtrgiu stipidacea), Fueraria Caiidullei, KwG-loli-Tiweli 

 (Miiciina prurita), Kwe-leli-bwot-nwcli {CanavaUa luceiis), Halu-lct-wri {Hcptaplcurum 

 renidosum), Useu-iuii-no-pyiii {Briedelia stipidaria), Xuluiuii-bo {Mallotm repnndus), 

 Tlui-mri-klui-nweh (C >it/ea tomentosa), Xw(.'li-s;it-nwi'h [Si/mplivrema iiirolucratiim), 

 Ku invcli {Si/m/iorc»ia uiiyueculatam), suvoral species of Cuiiibredim. like Ivyet-tet-iiweh 

 {Comb, squamostaii), Mo-nia-khri-nweh {C. extcnauni) and Tlui-iua-ka-uway [C. dccan- 

 dnim), K\vot-ne-n\vuh [Cali/copteris lioxbttrghii), several ('ucuiliitacoa^, Kweh-elio 

 {Thunbergiu laurifuUa), Na-sliagyi ( Cnjptolepis Bttchanani), Fagraa obovata, some very 

 sliowy ttowereil Conro/culdcece like U-iiiyn [Ipomea Xantaniha), Kya-liiii-ka-le-nweli 

 {Ipo-nea vitifolia), Toung-ka-zim {Argijrei:i capifa(a), 0-limou-iiweh {Arggreia barbi- 

 gera), 0-iia-kdp-nweli {Argyreia populifolia) ami others. 



Herbage and slirubbery, although not dense, is more conspicuous, and in 

 places even luxuriaut, especially along choungs. Parasitic Loranthacea, all called 

 Kyi-poung, and mistletoes, Thyt-long, of tlie liurmese, are here more plentiful than 

 in any other forest, except in the iSavannah forests, and in the cidtivated jilains. 

 As might be expected, Teak is of inferior growth and more dispersed through 

 the forest. 



Towards the banks of the larger rivers coarse grasses (usually called elephant 

 grass) overrun the ground, and the trees become hero very scattered. The subsoil 

 seems often be to here waterlogged more or less, and hence the trees become very 

 short stemmed and stunted, for a subterranean sheet of water acts upon the roots 

 like an impermeable stratum. The trees that can withstand such a condition are 

 not numerous, and arc chicily Ok-neli {Shrb/us nxper), Pouk {Butea frondosa), Htcin 

 {Xauclea panifolia) Thyt-pcHJUg or Thy-kala {Xuuclea sessilifolia). Byn-ga (Xaiic/ca 

 rofundij'olia) Tha-hpan (Ficns Vluttiigonga), Niounghpyu (Ficus liumphii), Yen-daik 

 {Dalhergia cullrata), Thyt-pok {Ihilbergia purpurea), Pam-bwe [Cari'ga iirburea), 

 Pyeng-ma or Pi ma {Lagrr-sfra'iiiia J/n.H-regi>irt), I.en {'I'crminalia pgrifnlia), Klia-boung 

 {Strychiwn nux-romiea), Touk-sha {I'itex kiicoxg/oii), Sha {Acacia catechu), Kywon or 

 i'eak, Zi-ben {Zizgphus Jujuba), Pyi-zyn {Antidesma ahtisembilla), Nab-he {Odiiia 

 irodier), IInian-h])yu {Itaiidia uliginona), Tamin-tsa-hpyu {Gardenia sessilijlora), Syt 

 {Albizzia eluta), Ong-dong {2\t ranthrra Jlo.rburghii), and others. Often only one or 

 a few trees ineiitioned here are found scattered over large tracts of these Savannahs. 

 The only bamboo occurring here is Kya-khat-wa {Bambusa urundinacea). 



YHI. DUXE FORKSTS. 



These forests offer many peculiarities, which make it desirable that they should 

 1)0 separated from the other forests. They partake, now more of an evergreen, 

 now of a. deciduous forest, and grow exclusively on the calcareous sand, con- 

 sisting of the fine fragments of sludls and corals tlirown uj) on the sea-shore. 

 Forests gi-owing along the actual beach may be termed Peach Forests, but 

 they only constitute a very slight variety of the true Dune Forest. This latter 

 grows on the sand-dunes along the shore, formed by the calcareous sand blown 

 inwards from the sea, and which Dunes are on many islands of the Malay Archipelago 

 as extensive as arc those of Holland. In Burma, only Beach Forests are found, 

 except possibly in Tenasserim, West of Tavoy, where apparently extensive dunes, 

 with typical dune forests (consisting mainly of Casuariiia), seem to occur. They 

 are greatly intersected by outrunning ridges and the silty debouchures of rivers. 

 The cocoa-palm seems restricted to tliose of the Cocos Islands, and to a few ])lacc3 

 along the western coast of North Andaman. In those of Burma we find chietly 

 Thyn-wyn {Poiigamia glabra), Pyn-hdi-ka-thyt {Ergthriua Lidica), Di-du {JSombax 

 Malabaricum),T\\ym-\yMi {Jlibincus ti/iaccus), Tsat-thali-hpyu {Pandanus odoratissimux), 

 Alyn-ga or Myeng-ka {Cgmomcfra bijuga), Gucttarda speciosa, Mong-taing {Cgca.i 

 Itumpliii), T/ienpixia popul/iea, Pyn-lch-litan {Sc<ci-ula Kocnigii), Termiiudia catappa, 

 Tha-bye-hpyu {Eugenia Jacanica), Afzelia bijuga, Kyeh-gyi {Barringlonia upcciosa), 

 Pong-nyet {Calop/igllum inophijlhnn), Atalantia macrop/iglla, Dcsmodium umbcllalum, 



