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On the island of Bali in the Indian Ocean, a Hindu 
girl offers a fragrant Frangipani blossom to Siva, 
God of Passion and Destruction—he who destroys 
TOncreate. 
Large parts of South India are so dry that the 
countryside is overgrown with Opuntias and Euphor- 
bias, but here also bloom thousands of Vinca Rosea, 
our periwinkle. 
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The volcanic slopes of the 10,300 ft. Mt. Agung are 
bright with Poinsettias in bloom in July. South of the 
Equator Poinsettias bloom during our Summer, but 
right under the Equator they flower the year round. 
The Sundanese eat the leaves after putting them 
into boiling water for a moment. 
At the entrance to a cave temple in the Sunda Is- 
lands grows a graceful Staghorn fern, Platycerium 
Willincki, out of a crevice of the rock. 
Staghorn ferns are mostly found growing on trees 
in the jungle. 
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