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An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia..
The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.
Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east.
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Tappan means An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia..
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The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.
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