Jan., 1923] 
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forest being almost exclusively of the Malayan rain-forest type. Lianas in 
great variety were noted, perhaps the commonest being species of Vitis, 
but climbing Araceae like those seen at Babinda were conspicuous, and the 
Fig. 2. Rain forest, North Queensland; in foreground and at the right, Calamus sp.;. 
in the middle, Alsophila australis; on the tree trunk at left, Asplenium Nidus and 
Pothos sp. 
rattan palms (Calamus sp.) made impassable tangles, especially at the edge 
of the forest. No barbed-wire entanglement could be more impenetrable 
than a rattan thicket, as one soon learns to one’s sorrow. Another dreaded 
pest of these forests is the tree nettle, Laportea moroides , a rank-growing 
weed some ten or fifteen feet high, whose touch is torture. In southern 
