WARM TKMPERATE WOODLAND AND GRASSLAND 447 



true high-forest— of course omitting fringing-forcst— arc not inferior to the 

 tropics in their rainfall. 



Florida, clad with extensive forests, which are however not very lofty or 

 lu.xuriant, appears to have a rainfall of 130-140 cm. (Fort Brook 136 cm.); 

 the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the east of the Mississippi has 147 cm. ; 

 whilst the Bahamas, with merely bushy and shrubby woodland, have 120 cm. 

 only (Nassau 118 cm.). All these countries have chiefly summer rain; the 

 winter however is also very humid. 



Tropical rainfall and tropical forest growth appear to the south of the 

 tropics, in South America for instance on the Brazilian coast (Joinvilie, 

 Blumenau) up to about 30°, and in the interior, in Paraguay (Asuncion) 

 and along the Andes, up to about 25° S. 



Subtropical High-forest Climate. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



(From Meteorol. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 272 ; and Zeitschr. d. osterr. Gesellsch. f. 

 Meteorol., 1S77, p. 333.) 



The rainfall in Blumenau is very variable. It consisted, on the average of 1868-74, of 

 1,406 mm. ; 1875-80, of 1,676 mm. ; in the year 1888, of 2,149 mm. ; in 1890 of 1,333 mm. 



