KlIODODENDRON INHABITING BOENEO. 



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Rhododendron longiflorum. 



would be smothered by the surrounding vegetation. This may 

 possibly be the case with the plants in question. It is quite 

 conceivable that they may have taken refuge in Borneo in the 

 branches of trees, because of the impossibility of establishing 

 themselves in the marshy soil of a country frequently under 

 water for long periods at a time : and there is nothing in the 

 nature of tilings to render it improbable that the saturated air 

 may yield them all the food they require in a country visited 



