XXVili INTRODUCTORY. 
Chittagonga),nyoung-hpyoo (Ficus Rumphii), yindyke (Dalbergia 
cultrata), thit-poh (Dalbergia purpurea), bambwe (Careya arborea), 
Jujuba) , pyee-zin (Antidesma ghesembilla), nabbhay (Odina wodier), 
mhan-hpyoo (Randia uliginosa), tamin-tsa-byoo (Gardenia sessili- 
flora), thit (Albizzia elata), ong-tong (Zetranthera Roxburghii), and 
others oO n i 
scattered over large tracts of these savannahs. The only bamboo 
occurring here is kyakatwa (Bambusa arundinacea) . 
IiI. Dune Forrsts.—These forests offer many peculiarities 
which make it desirable that they should be separated from the 
other forests. They partake now more of an evergreen, now of a 
deciduous forest, and grow exclusively on the calcareous sand con- 
sisting of the fine fragments of shells and corals. This sand forms 
either the beaches of the sea, in which case the area is very small and 
more or less crescent-shaped. Forests growing on such beaches 
were called by me BEacH rorxsts, but indeed they are only a very 
slight variety of the true punn-rorzsts. These latter grow on the 
dunes along the shores, formed by the calcareous sand blown inwards 
extensive dunes with typical dune forests (consisting of Casuarina, 
etc.) seem to occur west of Tavoy. They are greatly intercepted 
i i f rivers. The 
odallum, Briedelia glauca, and such like trees. These forests are open 
and pretty sunny, and shrubs are here plentiful and often entangled 
and Ipomeas, especially penglay-kazun (Ipomea pes-capre), cover 
the loose sand. 
