XXX ; INTRODUCTORY. 
tree seedlings struggle for existence. Often (especially on the 
of ta-mazaing or 
minsain-ben (Panicum acari; erum) an et-ya (Polytoca heteroclita) , 
rarely of thekkay-nyin (Zmperata “ejlittrion. In other localities 
where bamboo around such clearings flowered, bamboo seedlings 
ring up and soon choke all other vegetation, except light-loving, 
- quick-growing sapling trees. _ relations chiefly regulate the 
nature of the coming jungle, but, or viiieg haa deserted clearings 
raises into forests similar to, or identical with, those that pre-existed 
