of forest. 
But when 
na^ji, with 
f i re 
and 
ax©} 
fells 
the trees, 
whet her 
19 sows ? 
> crop 
or 
not, 
certain 
weeds t .ke 
possession 
of the 
soil $ 
and anon 5 then a yrass- Infer at a arundinacea or Balany* 
yets at f 5 rot the nr per hand smooth©ring its rivaXrs 
In the lalany geminate nee do of wo dy pi an to and 
if ’ nan does not repeat the disturbance these woody 
plants in turn smother the 
L al an 
Z i 
to be 
in 
turn 
oust 
sd of other trees which 
fol 1 ow, 
until 
•f* V> ,3 
'j 1 i -J 
forest 
* 
10 
restored. Put yen©rally 
the d 
iot 
urbane© 
ft 
i OH 
repeated, 
f o r 
1a!any is easily fired 
and 
if 
there 
*i r*t 
L f > 
yrnoiny 
to 
b e d one it is p ro fit ab1 
e to 
burn it, 
and 
then 
own y ito hold strenythfened by 
the la^ny hoido it 
r 
successive buninyo, because they gradually briny about 
A 
m 
of 
the 
soil 
in which 
forest trees 
diff 
icuit 
or 
irpoysi lie, 
imzmzz'rm 
Vr * t 
in 
some 
obscure way. By the 
in the Peninsula 
action of nan hao all the yrass land originated, 
and by the action of nan io it maintained, but the 
foreoy would cone bn ok very slowly in done of the 
no o t e n t ah1iohed c1e ari r \ yo. 
f 
The Malayan Rain Forest Royion extendo northwards 
to upper Assam and eastwards to Papua, avoiding Rian, 
bithin this wi fie area it io ©any to find subdivision, 
and the subdivision tc which the Peninsular flora 
i 
belonyo has ito northern Unit about Alor Btar, and 
io distinct from that embraviny Borneo, and from that 
ennraciny Java, but Sumatra 
ohareo too many characteriotico with tin* "bo 
the Peninsula to he Placed in a Separate 
