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and a conglomeration of seeds and 

 the tide. Many of the fruits wa< 

 were those of characteristic strand 

 screw pines, Xipa palms and others. 



and some of them had germinated a- 

 a foothold in the loose mass of pi- 

 Above this outer drift zone the 

 sandy belt where various typical s 

 tablished themselves. The long 

 Ipomwa prs-cupi«\ that most ul 

 strand plants, sprawled over the s 



flowered leguminous plant Vif/ua hit 

 thick, waxy leaves, and various o 

 to the outer littoral zone of the Ir 

 While fruits of the Xipa palm were 

 not yet got a foothold in Krakatar 

 no mangrove formation established. 



Back of the beach a thrifty belt of 

 and could be plainly seen long be 

 island. Some of the trees in thi: 

 fifty feet high, the tallest being spe 



to the Australasian region, but with 

 distributed throughout the Malaya]) 

 ciated with these were found spec' 

 (Pandanus sp.), and the striking Te 

 whose whorled branches and great 

 it one of the most notable of trop 

 the most beautiful of all the trees o:' 



dark urecn leaves and great white 

 of stamens looking like an enormous 



common along the beach. Of the fe- 



After spending some time expl 



