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This. Hibiscus bush ends at the muddy margin of the bay, 
where we find a grass plain with all sorts of plants proper to 
a saltish soil such as Acrostichum aureum L., Clerodendron 
inerme Gaertn., and a few mangrove plants. There are sparse 
bushes of Avicennia marina Vierh., with the characteristic air- 
roots interspersed with Rhizophora conjugata L., Bruguiera caryo- 
philloides Bl., Lumnitzera littorea Voigt., and Xylocarpus mo- 
luccensis M. Roem. The whole western margin of the bay is 
set with a fairly continuous belt of Mangrove plants which only 
shows a few gaps. Near the entrance to a kampong however 
there are cocopalms again and small wild patches of jungle-grass 
(Alang grass), Imperata cylindrica P.B. and mingled with these 
the wild sugar-cane, Saccharum spontaneum L. We will look 
more closely at these grounds next time, and must now return 
to the Southern end of the bay. Upon crossing the marshy place 
with the mangrove plants we get to another coco grove with 
the usual undergrowths; it is not very broad and overrun with 
all sorts of weeds. Especially the climbing fern Stenochlaena 
palustris Bedd. forms whole jungles again largely mixed with 
Nephrolepis hirsutula Pr. Penetrating further to the interior 
we get to a forest that covers the whole plain and passes gra- 
dually into the forest of the mountain slopes. It is not the 
genuine primeval forest of the type we are familiar with on 
Java or Sumatra, with its large number of different plant species, — 
but it is made up of a large number of individuals belonging 
to a comparatively small number of species. Here we meet for 
the first time giant specimens of Ficus variegata Bl. with well 
developed buttresses and white trunks rising high over the 
other trees; other varieties of Ficus are also represented here. 
Under them grow Mallotus moluccanus M. A , Hibiscus tiliaceus 
L. as an ordinary tree growing normally upright, Macaranga 
Tanarius L., Villebrunnea rubescens: Bl. with the conspicuous 
big witches’ brooms occasioned by a gall-mite. There are also 
a few Hernandia peltata Meissn., and copses largely of Leea 
sambucina Willd. Smaller kinds of Ficus such as F. hispida L., 
with long pendent bloom-twigs and F. fistulosa Reinw. are also 
of general occurrence. For a certain distance the ground is here 
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