TEOPICAL FLORAS 



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Tropical Floras — Small Areas 



Place. 



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 4 

 5 

 6 



Malacca 



Singapore 



Penang 



Lagoa Santa, Brazil 



Mount Pangerango, Java 

 Kambangan Island, Java 



Authoritj'. 



Gamble. 



Ridley. 



Curtis. 



Warming. 



Koorders. 



Koorders. 



Temperate Floras — Smalt. Areas 



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 9 

 10 



Place. 



Mount Nikko, Japan .... 



Cape Peninsula 



Schaffhausen 



Washington, D.C 



Hertford ( near ) 



Paramatta River, Sydney 



Capri, Italy 



Edmondsham, Dorset 



Cadney, Lines 



Tliames Ditton 



Authority, 



Havati. 



Bolus. 



A. de Candolle. 



Ward. 



A. de Candolle. 



H. Deane. 



Beguinot. 



Rev. E. F. Linton. 



Rev. Woodruffe-Peacock. 



H. C. Watson. 



together with hundreds of other delicate and beautiful little 

 greenhouse plants, — formed an assemblage which no other 

 country could approach. Rich as it is, however, there is now 

 reason to believe that West Australia — Swan River Colony 

 in its original restricted sense — is quite as productive in spe- 

 cies, while evidence is slowly accumulating that many parts 

 of the tropics are really still more productive. 



The first to be noticed of these rich tropical areas of small 

 extent is the island of Penang in the Straits of Malacca, which, 

 though only 106 square miles in area, contains 1813 species. 

 Sir Joseph D. Hooker, in his Sketch of the Flora of British 

 India (1906), terms this " an astonishing number of species," 

 and remarks on the large proportion which are arboreous, and 

 of the altitude of the island being only 2750 feet. TTere, there- 



