cae hich they gro\ 
does not allow the eng tree to vegetate, and, indeed, all the laterite 
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deing (Lophopetalum Wallichii), myoukzee (Zizyphus jujuba), lam-bo 
(Buchanania latifolia), thit-say (Melanorrhea usitata), dan-yat 
carpa), kha- 
boung (Strychnos nux vomica), nabbhay (Odina wodier), yingat 
striking. Where depressions occur, they are usually filled up 
with stiff clay inundated during the rains, and such -places are - 
more or less densely covered by thin dry grass and ee 
- 9. Hitt ena Fornsts.—These forests occupy the ridges of the 
outer hill ranges of Martaban and Upper Tenasserim, where t 
folius. Other conspicuous trees are Engethardtia villosa, Quercus 
Brandisiana, and Q. Bancana, ~ ma « thi 
(Melanorrhaa glabra), Castanea tribuloides, Tristania B Cay 
Anneslea fragrans, etc. Various trees of the true eng forests and 
metimes of the drier hill forests associate, like doung-hsap- 
pya (Callicarpa arborea), Dillenia aurea, Rhus Tavanica, Vernonia —— 
acuminata, ete. hill eng forests require further study. 
3. Low Forxsts.—These are only a modification of the true 
eng forest, being, so to say, a mixture of trees from the lower mixe 
forests with eng forest trees. The stiff clay on whi ) 
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