324 J.D. Hooker, Introductory Essay to the Flora of Tas 
the Himalayan flora disappears, and does not reappear ben | 
tralia or New Zealand, and scarcely a trace of it is 
The Malayan florat is in many respects closely allied to the 
Himalayan, but is wholly tropical in character. This also v8) 
gradually appears in the valleys of the western and cent 
Himalaya, or che et in genera and species in the 
waddi, and the lower flat districts of the Malay Islands, astral 
“It 1s continued in great force over the whole of tropi — 
* * Chara eterized by Cupuliferce, Magnoliacee, Ternstremiacee, Baw pete ea 
acee, etc. ypified : 
a+ Vaceinee, Rh ron, Begoniacee, Quercus: and equally t, aie 
andracece, Dipterocarpee, Myristicee, Anonacee, Menispermee. orated at p-2 
+e Consists of Acanthacew, Sterculiacee, and other orders, enum la 
et seq. [in the original Essay]. oe 
