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with millions of white specks with yellow centres, which are often crowded together 

 and then hang down like a snowy drapery over the subjacent shrubs. 



Fig. 432. Screw-pine forest on the summit of the Lokon (1,560 meters), N. Celebes. 

 From photographs by Kukenthal. 



'The whole forest, as Hohnel has already remarked, gives one the impression of 

 decrepitude and senility. Slender ascending trees, with long boles free from 



