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' The level tableland is generally covered with grass, but deficient in shrubs. 

 Here, scattered, are to be seen the most stately and majestic trees of Eucalypts ; 

 such tablelands appearing more like a park— the trees standing seemingly at 

 measured distances, single or in small clumps, as if planted by the hands of a land- 

 scape gardener. The soil of such tableland is, generally speaking, very rich. . . . 

 The underwood of the forests is mostly represented by the following genera : 

 Correa (Rutaceae), Alyxia (Apocynaceae), Prostanthera (Labiatae), Grevillea (Pro- 

 teaceae), Hakea (Proteaceae), Isopogon (Proteaceae), Exocarpus (Santalaceae), 



Fig. 261. Eucalyptus- forest and savannah in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 

 From a photograph. 



Acacia (Mimosaceae), Banksia (Proteaceae), Cassia (Caesalpinaceae), Calythrix 

 (Myrtaceae), Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae), Leucopogon (Epacridaceae), Leptosper- 

 mum (Myrtaceae), Daviesia (Papilionaceae), Dillwynia (Papilionaceae), Eutaxia 

 (Papilionaceae), Platylobium (Papilionaceae), Pultenaea (Papilionaceae), and shrubby 

 Eucalypts.' 



3. GRASSLAND FORMATION IN THE WARM TEMPERATE 



BELTS, 

 i. DISTRIBUTION. 



Grassland formation in the warm belts of the temperate zones frequently 

 resembles that of the tropics, and is then savannah with isolated trees and 



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