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the tropics in the lowest and warmest region of the New Conti- 
nent, there are fewer Composite, in the subalpine and tempe- 
rate regions more, than under the same circumstances in the Old 
World. Mr Brown found on the Rio-Gongo, and in Sierra- 
Leone, ; in India and New Holland (CongOj p.'£ 6 ; 
Nova Gen, vol. iv.' p, £39.) In the temperate zone, the Com- 
positse are in America, (this is probably also in equinoctial 
America the proportion of the Composite of the highest moun- 
tains to the whole mass of alpine ph^nogamous plants) ; at 
the Cape of Good Hope, 4 ; in France, \ (correctly ; in 
Germany J. Under the frigid zone the Composite are, in Lap- 
land, ; in Kamtschatka, {Hornemann^ p. 18. ; BerL 
Jahrb. b. i. p.‘£9.) 
Leguminos.®. ” Trop. America, ; India, J ; New Hol- 
land, Tj ; Western Africa, J, (Congo, p. 10.) Temp. France, 
Germany, ; North America, Siberia, ^^5 (Berl 
b. L p. ££.) Frig. 
Labiate. = Trop. Temp. North America, i Ger- 
many, ; France, 2 ^. Frig. The rarity of Labiatm and 
Cruciferm in the temperate zone of the New Continent is a very 
remarkable phenomenon. 
Malvace^. ~ Trop. America, ; India and Western 
Africa,, gb, {Co7igo, p..9,); on the coast of Uuinea alone, 
(Hornemann, p. £0.) Temp. Frig. 0, . . .. 
CiiuciFER.E. Almost wanting under the dropics, on taking 
away the mountains to within from 1£C0 to 1700 toises., (Nova 
Gen. p. 16.)- France, -/g, ; Germany, ; North America, 
Rubiaceje. Without dividing the family into sections, we 
find beneath the tropics, in America, ; in Western Africa, 
: nnder the temperate zone in Germany, ^*0 ^ France, 
: under the frigid zone, in Lapland, ^b- Brown sepa- 
rates the great family of Rubiaceae into two groups, whicb pre- 
sent very distinct climatic proportions. The ' group of Stel- 
latae without interposed stipules, belong chiefly to the temperate 
