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there is no obvious reason why Cryptocoryne should decline to estab- 
lish itself on the banks of muddy creeks before the forest disappears 
and yet do so profusely wherever a clearing has been effected. 
The most interesting part of the enquiry into the distribution of 
the Sundribun species is that which concerns the sea-borne plants 
to be met with in the swamp-forests, at the sea-face and, to a less 
but still an appreciable extent, in the northern clearings. The sub- 
ject has already been very fully and instructively dealt with by 
Mr. C. B Clarke* so that here only the briefest summary is necessary. 
It is sufficient to say that the results of an examination in detail of their 
distribution indicate that to a greater extent than even with the wind- 
borne element in the Flora, these species are of Malayan and not of 
Indian type. The distribution of the g6 species of this kind is 
summarised as follows : — 
Distributed both westward and eastward . r 
Cosmopolitan on tropical coasts 
Coasts from America to Malaya . 
Coasts from Eastern Africa to Polynesia 
Coasts from Eastern Africa to Northern Australia 
Coasts from Eastern Africa to Malaya . 
Coasts from Eastern Africa to Malaya but not 
those of India or Indo-China . 
Coasts from Mascarenes to Polynesia . 
Coasts from Mascarenes to Polynesia but not 
those of India or Ceylon .... 
Coasts of Mascarenes, Coromandel and Java 
Coasts from Malabar to Polynesia 
Coasts from Malabar to Polynesia but not 
Coromandel 
Coasts from Malabar to Australia “ . 
Coasts from Malabar to Australia but not in Coro 
mandel , . . . , . 
Coasts from Malabar to Malaya . 
Coasts from Malabar to Malaya but not in Coro 
mandel 
Coasts from Malabar to Indo-China 
Coasts from Malabar to Indo-China but not in 
Coromandel . ' • . . . 
Coasts of Ceylon, Indo-China, Malaya, Australia 
Coasts of Ceylon, Malaya, Australia, Polynesia 
Coasts of Coromandel and Indo-China 
Coasts of Coromandel and China-Japan 
Distributed only eastward .... 
Coasts eastward to Polynesia . ... 
Coasts eastward to Australia and New Guinea 
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* Proceedings, Linnean Society of London, 1894-95, pages 14—29 
