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their development. These forests are highly developed from Marta- : | 
ban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans; also the Arracan Yomah 
and the mountainous parts of Ava show a preponderance of tropical 
forest. But in the lower Chittagong hills, and all along the Pegu 
Yomah, they retreat to the deep valleys, while they are almost 
absent in the drier districts of Prome and Ava. The variety of 
trees in these forests is so great as not to allow me to draw up a 
_parallelonewra, hmya-sait (Antiaris toxicaria), htaip-kouk-pen 
albescens), Marlea, Stereospermum fimbriatum, kyo-ben (Vitex pedun- 
eularis), yuay-kyee (Adenanther 
toona) , no Lagerstremia calyculata), zoung-ka 
(Lagerstr. villosa), \aiza (Lagerstr. tomentosa), thayet. (Mangifer 
), nyoung-kyap (Ficus obtusifolia), nyoung-chin (Ficus 
tmfectoria), uyoung-peing-nai (Ficus nervosa), tha-hpan (Ficus 
glomerata), ially along choungs, than-that (Adsizzia lucida 
tanyeng (Pithecolobium angulatum), thit-nee itukea 
Dysoxyton and other Meliacee, Diplospora singularis, yay-hmyot 
Trewia nudiflora), yue-woon (Hibiscus macrophyllus), sha-wa 
Sterculia ornata), Elaocarpus, etc. A host of small trees vegetate 
nder the shade of these trees, but I can mention only a few of 
hem, such as nagyee (Pterospermum, 2-3 species) A madaw (Garcinia 
pubescens, nalingyo (Cinnamomum), several kinds of ongtone 
(Tetranthera), numerous other Lawrinea, Karloh Hodae. 
carpus heterophylius), myouk-oksheet (Siphonodon celastrinus). kana 
800: (Baccaurea sapida), Micromelum pub 
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