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FLORAL PROVINCES. 
Peru, the legion of the ejuinine ciiidfever- 
bark trees. Ninth—The Highlands of 
South America, with their handsome ever¬ 
green shrubs. Tenth—Chili, the land of 
calceolarias. Eleventh—Buenos Ayres and 
the eastern coast of South America, distin¬ 
guished by peculiar flower-bearing trees. 
Twelfth—the Antarctic circle. Thirteenth 
—New Zealand. Fourteenth—New Hol¬ 
land, the country of gum trees and peculiar 
forms. Fifteenth—South Africa, the home 
of the eucalypta and heaths. Sixteenth— 
Western Africa. Seventeenth — Eastern 
Africa, rich in ferns. Eighteenth—India, 
characterized by the beautiful and useful 
trees of the ginger tribe. Nineteenth—The 
Indian hi 2 :hlands. Twentieth — Cochin 
China. Twenty-first—Arabia and Persia, 
rich in spices, and ornamented by the ‘^yel¬ 
low-haired” acacia. Twenty-second—The 
South Sea Islands, the region of the bread 
fruit. 
The enumeration above given does not 
comprise all the families which Professor 
Schow considers characteristic, but only a 
specimen of them. It is interesting as 
