Burma . with a frequent under-growth of cane-brake. This is the habitat ofseveral useful timber trees, thingdn, pyivima,These trees and their associates follow the banks of the small feeders into the hill-regions, or form an inter-mixture in the forest of evergreen trees which occupies the soles of ravines, abounding in lianas and epiphytic plants, with an undergrowth of musacece. Above this forest or the kwin, as the case may be, comes the zone of dry forest already described. Above the dry forest zone, but also at lower levels where the soil is volcanic (trap), comes the hill evergreen fores
Burma . with a frequent under-growth of cane-brake. This is the habitat ofseveral useful timber trees, thingdn, pyivima,These trees and their associates follow the banks of the small feeders into the hill-regions, or form an inter-mixture in the forest of evergreen trees which occupies the soles of ravines, abounding in lianas and epiphytic plants, with an undergrowth of musacece. Above this forest or the kwin, as the case may be, comes the zone of dry forest already described. Above the dry forest zone, but also at lower levels where the soil is volcanic (trap), comes the hill evergreen forest. Here trees are in the ascendant, except for occasional patches of giant bamboo {wabo, No. 123). The trees are of innumerable species, of spongy and worthless timber, with a sprinkling of ka-nyin, kaung-hmu, taiing-pein-hni, and thingdn, and in the extreme South, gangaw. The under-growth consists of young trees, with palms, pandanuses and 253. upper waters of river (july). ka-nyin (the wood-oil tree).. ii6 BURMA
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