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proportion of ferns, additional epiphytal orchideous plants, 

 Begonias, and other species showed, its top supported a 

 more tropical flora than its base. 



Myrsine, Shorea, Millettia, ferns, mosses, and foliaceous lichens; which appeared iu 

 strange association with such dry-climate genera as Kalanchoe, Pterospermum, and the 

 dwarf-palm, Phoenix. Add to this list the Berberis asiatica, Clematis nutans, Thalic- 

 trum glyphocarpum, 27 grasses, Cardamine, &c, and the mountain top presents a 

 mixture of the plants of a damp hot, a dry hot, and of a temperate climate, in 

 fairly balanced proportions. The prime elements of a tropical flora were however 

 wholly wanting on Paras-nath, where are neither Peppers, Pothos, Arum, tall or 

 climbing palms, tree-ferns, Guttiferw, vines, or laurels. 



