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lha natural vasstati.cn of t/ve Malay Peninsula 5, 
forest of the type known tot botanists an tropical 
Haln Forest, that id to say, It In evergreen, one 
hundred feet high or no re, nans up of lantn ^hos© 
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full of woody elinbero,, while 1 there In an extraordinary 
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wealth of nnall plantn perched'- In all sorts of coigns 
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cd advantah© on. their larger n© \ghbours*- 5? he tangle 
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of woody creepers Inj re n n e n t ■ i e v 1 nl to r r io s t 1 : e c au s© 
they Impede hin proprenn no much and an he 
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walk" with 8; 3." oh He ground, the bpiphytto except 
tons of the r.osnen, are cut of nijJi't far rfoye and 
only core to notice where r> or© giant tree has fall©) 
:: ring any the rich garden of ' orchids and f ernn , even 
of -diode dendronn In Malaya, dew. to earth- Hhe ground 
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carries very few snail plants: It in everywhere brown 
with a coating of decaying leaven. Floworn are also 
for the nont part far above the visitor 
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hidden by interfering leaven and hard- to 
the brighter nky. Phun . the visitor get; 
the forest is flowerless, v di ich is 
flowers of the Hain Forest are on 
inconspicuous- 
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^ re at v ariety of sp % cies: X& i s neve r '11 ke a pi no 
icrest, but ^dUx bevrildaringly diverse.* Frees of various 
si sen, non© demanding the broad sunlight for their 
