tion to the vast regions whose vegetation it represents, less ex- 
tensive than either that of the north coast of New Holland, 
or even of the line of the Congo. And as it is in fact as 
much the Flora of the Andes as of the coasts of intratropical 
America, containing families nearly or wholly unknown on 
the shores of equinoctial countries, it may be supposed to 
have several of those families which are common to all such 
countries; and among them Composite, in very different pro- 
portion. At the same time it is not improbable that the re- 
lative number of this family in equinoctial America, may be 
greater than in the similar regions of other intratropical 
countries; while there seems some reason to suppose it;con- 
siderably smaller on the west coast of Africa. This dimi- 
nished proportion, however, in equinoctial Africa would be 
more remarkable, as there is probably no part of the world 
in which Composite form so great a portion of vegetation as 
at the Cape of Good Hope." 
