GENERAL INDEX 



625 



317-8, 331, 363-4, 368, 409, 520; 

 the process concerned in endemism 

 favoured by the deterioration of 

 plants in their capacity for dispersal, 

 262-3, 337, 35o, 365, 507, 594-5 J 

 biological connection between plants 

 and birds, 504-5 ; differentiation of 

 climate, bird, and plant, the bird 

 being dependent on the climate, and 

 the plant on the bird, 378, 410, 506-7, 

 514, 521-2 



Spergula arvensis, 536 



Spergularia rubra and S. marina, 33, 

 36, 536, 540, 544-5 



Sphacele, 362 



Spiraea ulmaria, 37, 92, 536 



Spitzbergen ; flora and plant dispersal, 

 511-2, 514 



Spondias dulcis, 532 



Spondias lutea, 124, 438, 489, 499 



Spondias, unidentified Fijian species, 

 602 



Spring-centres for the diffusion of 

 aquatic plants, 396, 399 



Stachys, 27, 28, 537 



Stapf, Dr., on the flora of Kinabalu, 

 101, 296, 301 



Statice, 34 



Station and seed-buoyancy, 16, 24, 30, 



515 



Stellaria, 37, 89, 536 

 Stenogyne, 262-3, 594-5 

 Sterculia, u, 375-6, 391, 532-3 

 Sterculiaceae, 10, 375 

 Straussia, 262-3, 3^4 

 Stromboli, its shadow, 586 

 Strongylodon, 80, 82, 107, 113, 123, 



200, 436, 529, 53i, 558, 562-3, 565 

 Struthious birds, suggested as seed- 



dispersers, 152, 159-60 

 Stubbs, Dr. ; Agricultural Report on 



Hawaii, 212, 578 

 Stylocoryne, 532 

 Suaeda ; concerning dispersal by birds, 



5ii 

 Suaeda fruticosa, 34, 480, 482, 537, 



54i 



Suaeda maritima, 34, 537, 541 

 Suess, Prof., on the shell-fauna of 

 * Chile, 496 ; on the salts of ancient 



seas, 566 



Sula : see Boobies 

 Suriana maritima, 105, 528, 529, 563 

 Swamp-hens : see Porphyrio 

 Symphytum officinale, 537 



TABERN^EMONTANA, 381, 385, 532 

 Tacca ; relation between littoral and 

 inland species, 19, 134, 138 



Tacca maculata, 19, 138, 532, 548 

 Tacca pinnatifida, 19, 138 ; distribu- 

 tion, 138, 552, 563; modes of dis- 

 persal, 138 ; seed-buoyancy, 19, 108, 

 53, 53 : , 569 ; station, 138 ; growing 

 inland, 42, 138, 547, 548, 569 ; as a 

 food-plant, 138, 412, 414, 427 

 Tahiti ; area and altitude, 207-8 ; 

 temperature, 209 ; rainfall, 216, 218 

 Tahitian flora ; littoral plants, 14, 47, 

 528, 529, 551, 552; ferns and 

 lycopods, 220-230, 592 ; endemic 

 genera and endemic species of 

 flowering plants, 231-5 ; the age 

 of Compositae, 236-40, 245, 248, 

 and of Lobeliaceae, 250-2, 256-8, 

 266 ; the mountain plants, 269, 



290-3,305, 5i8-9 



The age of Malayan plants ; the 

 general dispersal of these plants 

 in the Pacific, 307-58 ; the loc*l 

 dispersal, (a) genera common to 

 Tahiti and Hawaii, but not found 

 in Fiji, 359, 370 ; () genera found 

 in Tahiti and Fiji, but not in 

 Hawaii, 359, 380-8 ; (c) residual 

 genera (found only in Tahiti), 359, 

 378. The absentees from Tahiti, 

 360, 388 

 American genera in Tahiti, 379, 



380 



Talasinga plains : see Fiji 

 Tamus communis, 537 

 Tarawau tree of Fiji : see Dracon- 



tomelon 



Taraxacum, 536 

 Taro, 412, 415 

 Taubert, P., on Strongylodon, 



566 



Taviuni, 207-8 

 Taxus baccata, 537 

 Teesdalia, 567 



Temperature : see under Beach-tem- 

 perature, Estuaries, Humboldt cur- 

 rent 



Tephrosia piscatoria ; in Fiji, 42, 45, 

 547; in Hawaii, 56, 58, 59, 552, 

 553-6 ; buoyancy of seed and pod, 

 529, 562 ; modes of dispersal, 45, 

 150,417, 562 



Terminalia ; relation between coast 

 and inland species, 17, 120, 533 ; 

 buoyancy, 108, 114 



Terminalia katappa ; distribution, 52, 

 54, 551, 552, 563; buoyancy of 

 fruits, 108, 114, 529; their occur- 

 rence in beach-drift, 437, 559 

 Terminalia litorea or littoralis, 108, 

 529, 563 



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