OHAP. IX.] 



JNDO-MALAY ISLANDS. 



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with Australia has been indicated by Mr. Low^s collfcistions 

 from the summit of Kini-balou, the loftiest momitain in 

 Borneo 



Plants have much gi-eater facilities for passing across 

 arms of the sea than animals. The lighter seeds are easily 

 carried by the winds, and many of them are specially 

 adapted to be so carried. Others can tloat a long time 



unhurt III the water, and are drifted by wuids and currents 

 to distant siiores. I'igeona, and other fruit-eating birds, are 

 also the means of distributing ijlants, since the seeds 

 readily gemiinute after passing through their bodies. It 

 thus ha]»peus that jjlaiits wliich gi"ow on shores and low- 

 lauds have a wide distribution, and it requires an extensive 

 knowledge of the species of each island to determine the 

 relations of their floras with any approach to accuracy. At 

 present we have no such complete knowledge of the botsmy 



