. Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. Botany; Zoology; Artocarpus; Bananas. IN BORNEAN FORESTS [chap. Burmannias ^ were the reward of my patient and careful search in places where the forest was thickest, the shade densest, and the stratum of humus richest (Fig. 25). Under like conditions I was pretty certain to come across those small ground orchids (Anoectochilus, Goodyera^ etc.), with variegated leaves, spotted and striped with gold and silver and showing metallic sheens, which form the joy of orchid lovers, and are un- doubtedly amo
. Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. Botany; Zoology; Artocarpus; Bananas. IN BORNEAN FORESTS [chap. Burmannias ^ were the reward of my patient and careful search in places where the forest was thickest, the shade densest, and the stratum of humus richest (Fig. 25). Under like conditions I was pretty certain to come across those small ground orchids (Anoectochilus, Goodyera^ etc.), with variegated leaves, spotted and striped with gold and silver and showing metallic sheens, which form the joy of orchid lovers, and are un- doubtedly amongst the most charming and marvellous products of. 1 2 3 Fig. 25.—BURMA^NIACE^ OF THE MATTANG FOREST (natural sizc). (l) GEOMITRA EPISCOPALIS, BECC. (2) THISMIA NEPTUNIS, BECC. (3) THISMIA OPHIURIS, BECC. the vegetable kingdom. The slender and wax-like saprophytes just mentioned have very minute seeds, which cannot possibly be raised from the damp soil of the dense forest on which they fall so as to attain the higher currents of the atmosphere, and it is rather difficult to see how such plants succeed in widening their geo- graphical range. The fact remains, however, that some of them are to be met with on almost all the Malay islands, from the Malay Peninsula to New Guinea. I have endeavoured (Malesia, vol. iii. p. 325) to explain the matter through the agency of earthworms 1 Maiesia, vol. i. p. 240, and vol. iii. p. 318, 112. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920; Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer, 1845-1909. tr; Guillemard, Francis Henry Hill, 1852-1933. ed. London, A. Constable & co. , ltd
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