384. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XIV, 
(b) The median evergreen sub-type from 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 
This is the zone most suited for the purposes of the planting 
industry and several thousand acres have been cleared for 
coffee, tea and cardamoms. Rubber trees of several kinds 
have been tried, but this cultivation has not proved as profit: 
able as that of the other products named. Pepper vines are 
also grown to a small extent on the shade trees in the planta- 
tions. 
Gigantic evergreen trees grow in these forests, some, such 
as Mesua ferrea Linn., Calophyllum tomentosum Wight, Pala- 
i . an acaranga : 
Wight, The latter with Clerodendron infortunatum Linn. being ] 
the first tree-growth to appear as secondary growth on cleared 
areas left to themselves, . 
umerable woody shrubs form the next stage, such - 
Paramignya armata Oliv., Turraea villosa Benn., Psychotria ana 
mallayana Bedd., Saprosma indicum Dalz., Ervatamia : 
Stapf, several Strobilanthes which are often overgrown by en 
Stories; here the tree composite, Vernonia m 
appears. a 
Some further features of interest in this sub-tyPe 
the tree ferns (species of Alsophila). the Podostemomia 
