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Listia, Lebeckia, and others, and most perfectly by the vast genus Aspalathus ; in 

 Rosaceae, we find Cliffortia ; the order Bruniaceae also consists of such plants.' 



4. SCLEROPHYLLOUS WOODLAND IN SOUTH AND WEST 



AUSTRALIA. 



The 'scrub' of West and South Australia in its oecological aspect re- 

 sembles so completely the other sclerophyllous formations, that a descrip- 

 tion of it must seem a repetition : — It is evergreen, composed of chiefly 

 shrubby plants, with stiff, dry, simple, entire leaves, which are arranged 



FlG. 293. Sclerophyllous flora of Cape Colony. Cunonia capensis, Linn. (Cunoniaceae). 



obliquely or even parallel to the light, and possess a dull bluish upper surface, 

 often due to particles of wax or resin: if they display hairs at all, these 

 are usually on the under surface only. The accessory vegetation also agrees 

 in its wealth of bulbous and tuberous plants (Liliaceae, Haemodoraceae, 

 Orchidaceae), and its poverty in plants with thorns and with pinnate leaves. 

 Here again, judging the plants by their vegetative organs, one might refer 

 them to a single phylum and group them with that of the Mediterranean 

 coast and of Cape Colony, yet, in reality, in the Australian 'scrub,' we 



