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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 



H Mediterranean\^gQ 



□ Desert &Poor Scrub 



ED Scrub 



EE3 Steppe 



Mountain fbresT: & Grass 

 Park Land (Savana) 

 HotW* foreft 



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 



