and climbing plants which for Hied & comp act and alasoai is$MS shift jungle. 
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In ibis forest Metro sides ros polymorphs (Sfrud. to® the doMis&nt tree, sped- 
mens of this tree comprising over half of the forest* Its ruere cordon 
tree assoc1stes were HOgesia sandwloensfls Cray* BirausdLa car ini ana §ray. 
Acacia koa Gray t Pieonia ■umhellifsra Seem., and Sgrr«ni& san&wicensis Bidl. 
The more cordon under shrubs and small tree forms were Co rdyline ter¬ 
minal! s Kunth., Broussaisia argute Oaud., Clement la mere car pc Gaud*, 
Perottetia sandwieensie Cray, and various species of Pels® rr®y* 
A straggling pandanacecus clirJier, Kreyelnetia arnotti Claud. ,occurred 
in abundance throughout the forest, climbing to the top of nearly every 
tree, while Its tangled woody branches formed a barrier beneath the trees 
through which one could force a passage only with great difficulty and 
after much use of knife or a*. Clbotlusi mfitssiesll Kook, and ('.chsrdssoi 
Khulf . occurred frequently in well developed, specimens* iafelXe Klapho- 
glossum gorgoncun (Klf) Brack, completely covered the forest floor in 
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many places* 
In 1W0S this forest began to die out* all the ‘trees and Pr-^cirsetia 
vines dying off as though affected by n repi&ly spreading and quickly 
fatal discuss. A vary no ticcabin fact about the disease was that it 
spread rapidly along the broad topped ridges, but did not affect the 
vegetation on the steep Slopes of the adjacent gulches. 
The death of the trees and. vines was directly due to the 'killing of 
the roots .which penetrated the soil to a depth of two 1 ■ e s or more. 
In areas recently affected, where the trees still looked healthy it was 
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found, on uprooting the tree^, that those roots 4|*io h penetrated deeply 
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into the coil had been killed back to the surface of the ground. Such 
as remained entirely within the first inch or two of soil wore still 
alive and able to function. Of course no largo roots could be restrict- 
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