CONTENTS IX 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE PRIMITIVE F0BE8T. 



Its peculiar Charms and Terrors— Disappointments and Diificultieg of the Botanist 



— Variety of Trees and Plants — Character of the Primitive Forest according 

 to its Site — Its Aspect during the Eainy Season — A Hurricane in the Forest 



— Beauty of the Forest after the Kainy Season — Bird Life on the rivers of 

 Guiana — Morning Concert — Repose of Nature at Noon — Nocturnal Voices 

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CHAPTER IX. 



THE MEXICAN" PLATEAUS, AND THE SL0PE8 OP 8IKKIM. 



Grcological Formation of Mexico — The Tierra Calicnte — The Tierra Templada — 

 The Tierra Fria. 



The Sylvan" Wonders of Sikkim — Changes of the Forest on ascending — The 

 Torrid Zone of Vegetation — The Temperate Zone — The Coniferoxis Belt — 

 Limits of Arboreal Vegetation — Animal Life . . . .86 



CHAPTER X. 



MANGROYE VEGETATION. 



Its Peculiarities of Growth and beautiful Adaptation to its Site — Its Importance 

 in furtliering the Growth of Land — Animal Life among the Mangroves — 

 " Jumping Johnny " — Victimised by a Grapsus — Insalubrity of the Mangrove 

 Swamps — Uses of the Mangrove Trees — Avicennias and Sonneratias . 94 



PAET II. 



TROPICAL PLANTS. 



CHAPTER XI. 



GIANT TREES ANB CHARACTERISTIC FORMS OP TROPICAL VEGETATION-. 



General Remarks — The Baobab — Used as a Vegetable Cistern — Arborescent 

 Euphorbias — - The Dracsena of Orotava — The Sycamore — The Banyan — The 

 sacred Bo-Tree of Anarajapoora — The Teak Tree — The Saul — The Sandal 

 Tree — The Satinwood Tree — The Ceiba— The Mahogany Tree —The Mora— 

 Bamboos — The Guadua — Beauty and multifarious Uses of these colossal 



