1 CLIMATE AND ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE 237 
fruiting, and leaf-shedding are always going on in one species 
or other. It is never either spring, summer, or autumn, but 
each day is a combination of all three. With the day and 
night always of equal length, the atmospheric disturbances of 
each day neutralising themselves before each succeeding morn ; 
with the sun in its course proceeding midway across the sky, 
and the daily temperature almost the same throughout the 
year—how grand in its perfect equilibrium and simplicity is 
the march of Nature under the equator !” 
