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and north the forest type is much poorer and lighter, 

 tending towards the leaf-shedding type of the teak or 

 ' djati ', with which it is abundantly intermixed. The 



FIG. 11. Undergrowth of Evergreen Equatorial Forest 

 in Solomon Islands. 



succeeding belt on the moister side consists of ever- 

 green, temperate rain-forests, not unlike those of 

 south Chili and, corresponding to the cloud-belt, 



