This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the other types with that of the guava. Other species will also soon invade clearings from which all the vegetation has been removed, and then will join the guava in forming the new growth. In this way large tracts of land have come to be occupied by the guava mixed with the species of the other parangs. On the reserve ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the other types with that of the guava. Other species will also soon invade clearings from which all the vegetation has been removed, and then will join the guava in forming the new growth. In this way large tracts of land have come to be occupied by the guava mixed with the species of the other parangs. On the reserve there are all stages in the development of clearings. An enumeration of the species will be only a repetition of those already given. Groups of other cultivated trees which show the former condition are scattered through the guava parang. Thus isolated individuals or groups of Mangifera indica (mango), Anacardium occidentals (cashew), Artocarpus integrifolia (jack fruit), bananas, papaya, Ceiba pentandra, Areca catechu, and in one case Cocos nucifera were found scattered through the various stages in the development of a parang. Mention has already been made of the place in the vegetation of the building bamboo (Bambusa blumeana). No attempt has been made to enumerate all the indigenous species which were found. In spite of the detailed description of the different types, it is still felt that justice has not been done to the extreme floristic complexity of the vegetation. Seasonal changes of the formation.--The aspect of the parang, like that of the Bambusa-ParMa forest, changes with the season. During the dry one many of the herbs die to the ground and all are much reduced in foliage. The trees show the result of drought and drop a portion of their foliage. As a whole, the transpiration surface is decidedly thinner. While some of the trees flower irrespectively of season, yet the reproductive activity of a much larger number begins in May and. continues through July. These three months are distinctly the flowering ones. Vegetative ac 28 Bla...
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