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AFRICA 



equatorial belt of excessive moisture and the exuberant 

 Guinea selva. The equatorial rain-forest is not carried 

 over from shore to shore. This is to be explained by 



Mediterranean^^ 

 Desert&Poor Scrub 

 Scrub 

 Steppe 



Mountain Forest & Grass 

 Park Land (Savana) 

 Forest 



FIG. 75. Vegetation of Africa. 



the absence of moist north-eastern trade winds ; by the 

 eastern equatorial portion being an elevated plateau ; by 

 the south-eastern trade winds exhausting their moisture 



