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ehmtedia Roxburghii, Dalbergia glauca, (madaraa), atltrata, oiafa, and purpurea (thitpoh) 

 Pterocarput JhiUciis (especially iu Martaban and along the eastern slopes of Yomah), Naiicka 

 BruiiOHtu and cordifolia, Vitex a/ata, Millcltia lencant/ia (thin win), etc. 



Amongst these the following smaller trees are seen : Cratoxylon nerii/olium, Sterculia 

 colorala, Greuria eUistica, Diotjyyros e/iretioides and corili/olia, AntuJesma Qhaeai'mhilla, liottlera 

 tinctoria, two arboreous Evkphorbiae {E. antiquorinn and nivnlia), Holarrhena pube^eetvi, Camia 

 fiorida and nodosa, Bauhinia Malabarica, Sfri/chnos nitz vomica, Odina wodier, Kydia cali/cina, 

 Lagtrstroemia macrocarpa, Croton oblongifoUuin, Flacourtia calaphracta, Caloianthea Indica, 

 Ehretia laevis f , two or three species of Randia, Gardenia codaia, Ficus cuneifolia and hus- 

 pida, Premna pyramidata, P/iyllntilhuii (Emllica) albizzioidcs and officinalis, and others. 



The bamboo growth is much developed here and consists chiefly of large species. In 

 moister situations or along favourably exposed slopes appear Kyattounwa along with tiawa, 

 while waya occurs especially along choungs ; in drier situations ia to be found tinwa, the 

 principal bamboo, often associated with myinwa. 



Shrubs are here few and meagre ; the chief of them are Helicteres pkbe/a, Tltei>pesia Lampas, 

 Grewia hirsute, Ei mo nia alterHifolia, Baliospermum monlanum, Desmodium gyroides, piilchellum, 

 triquelruin and atrangulatum, Premna hirta, Saiiropiis compressus and ccriitogyiium, Clerodendron 

 urtici folium, nutans and another species, Flemmingia, Vernonia saligna and dicergcns, a small 

 broadleaved Cotlodiscus, Leea Staphylea ?, Bauhinia polycarpa, etc. Climbers are comparatively 

 few in individuals, but are nevertheless conspicuous without interfeiing much with the openness 

 of these forests. Such are especially 2 or 3 species of Combretum, Calycopferis, 2 or 3 species 

 of epiphytical Fici, Hemidesmus WalUchii, Enibelia rillosa, Thunbergia laurifolia, Cylista scario- 

 sa, Abrus prccatorius, Butea superba, Spatholobus Roxburghii, Argyreia capitata and another 

 species along choungs, Pueraria tuberosa, Sywphorcma involucrata, Sp/ienodesma unguiculata, 

 Mezoncuron cnneaphy/lum, Pterololium macropterttm, Acacia rugata and pinnata, Ipomoea 

 barbata, Otoseinma macrophylla, Cyclea peltata, etc. 



The exposed ground nourishes the following more frequent forms : Sida carpinifolia 

 and rhomhijblia, Urena lobata, Triumfetta annua, Pimpinella Hcyneana, Nehonia, Phaylopsis, 

 Strobilanthes phyllostachya, glaucescens, auriculatus, and sometimes ^<eroeaZts, Daeda/acantfiu~s. 

 fnacropbyllus, Barleria polytricha, Neuracanthus tetragonostachyus, Lepidagathis falcafa, in- 

 cur va, mucronata and fasciculata, Crotalaria acicularis, albida, dubia and a new ? species (near 

 C. Asaamica), Mecopus nidulans, Uraria refracta, Canscora decussata, Acginetia Indica, 

 Anisochilus pallidus, Achyrospermum, Lcucas procumbens, Goniphostemma, Aerva scandem, 

 Hedyotis scapigera, Argyreia sp. almost erect with broad large leaves, Blumea virens, runcinata 

 tar., hymenophylla, racemosa, holosericea etc., Peristrophe, Mitrcola, Musa glauca and sapien- 

 tum ? Geodorum, Hypoxis orchioidcs, Stcmona Griffithii, Aneilcma herbaceun, ovatum and 

 scapiflorum, Scieria locally, Hypolytrum irinerve, Cyperus moestus, Panicum plicatum, Gcnto- 

 theca, Sclaginella semicordata and tenera, Adenostemma latifolium, Oplismcnus )*p., Crotalaria 

 filiformis, Bonerila tenella, Jusiicia decussata, Hibiscus furcatus and another species, a yellow- 

 ish-leaved variety of Elephantopus scaber, Lygodium bipinnaium, Acrocephalus capitaius, Hit- 

 chenia sp., PolUnia tectonum, Blumea flava, Crotalaria alata, CorcJiorus acutangulus, Panicum 

 montanum, and others. 



Terrestrial ferns are few in number, and are all of sorts tolerant of a great degree of dry- 

 ness, such as Pleris longifolia, cretica, Ncjihrodium Jilix mas tar. cochleata, Adiantum lunu- 

 latum, etc. 



Orchids and other ephiphytical plants are not conspicuous here and are mostly restricted 

 to the upper paits of trees. They are almost the same as those occurring in the lower mixed 

 forests. Mosses are still scarcer, but a few species of Fls-yidens and Ilypnum cover in pro- 

 fusion the wet sandstone rocks along the choungs, where also Selaginellae, Marchantiaceac and 

 Junyermanniaceae appear. Stone-lichens are remarkably rare along the whole of the Yomah 

 range, and only along the Zamayee chouug did I meet with a few on the boulders of compact 

 sandstone, and also with a species on the fossiliferous rocks between Wanet and Kengpadee. 



These upper-mixed forests miglit be divided into moist and dry upper mixed forests. Such 

 a distinction, however, is too artificial, for these two varieties are nothing more tliau the product 

 of favourable and unfavourable exposures. Besides the Kyattounwa, characteristic of the 

 moister upper-mixed forests, some one or other tree from the evergreen forests associates itself, 

 such for instance as Albizzia lebbek, Caryota urens, Dipterocarpus alatus, etc. 



Wallichia oblonga, Colocasia fornicata, Grumilea elonyata, Aneilcma ocatuni, Cyperus 

 moestus, Panicum plicatum, Phrynia and other Scitamineac, Girardinia heterophylla, Boehmcria 

 diffusa, Chavica Siriboa, the rare and beautiful Impaiiois Tavoyana with flowers much resem- 

 bling those of Jonidium, and especially also Ophiopogon WalUchii are all such plants, as settle 

 themselves whtu conditions are favourable to their growth. The teak grass is also here more 

 frequently met with, especially along the northern slopes of the ridges. The drier upper 

 mixed forests are destitute of such plants as those just mentioned, and when myinwa gets 

 the upper-hand, as is often the case, the vegetation on the ground is reduced to only a few 

 such plants as are of more general occurrence. 



