Figs are represented only by the small fruited banyan types of figs and a large fig like fruit, (which I do not think is a fig at all) but on which the larger pigeons feed at certain times though they do not seem to relish this food and are only driven to it at times of shortage. In these areas of taller forest and in these only, signs appear of a larger taller forest of hardwood, teak and casuarinas mostly the latter I believe, stumps and logs 10 and 12 ft. though are still to be found. These are probably the re- mains of the first and original growths of vegetation on the island and are the parents of the present forest of smaller trees reaching to 6 ft. in diameter at the very most and most of them only 2 and 3 ft. in diameter. There is one other large type of durable tree whose stumps and even logs still exist which I cannot place. A minor feature of this forest is the presence of trees which normally grow only along beaches and all water margins, (species which depend on their seeds being water borne for propagation). Though generally speaking these trees are doing poorly and slowly vanishing their presence seems to show fairly recent formation of the forest which seems in exact opposition to the occasional large stumps. Actually the explanation is probably that large old and isolated trees appeared on the reef top and here and there long arms of tidal water remained along which sea borne seeds were carried and established and have managed to remain long after the disappearance of these arms because of the salinity of the water at no great depth. It is noticable that all large stumps appear in rock outcrops a foot or two above the general level of the surrounding terrain and