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ment which it often does in the meadows of temperate 
climates. Rather striking, too, is it that, on these 
savannahs, of the bright-flowered plants many, unlike 
those of temperate meadows, are here also true climbing 
plants, legumes chiefly and various species of Echites, 
though their stems, instead of climbing far and high over 
giant trees, here only ramble weakly and briefly over 
the short grasses. 
In each of these thus distin6l floras, of the coast, the 
forest, and of the savannah, the number of species is, of 
course, great ; but in each separate district the species 
characteristic of it are as a rule remarkably widely and 
evenly scattered throughout its extent. For example, 
within the forest district, probably by far the larger 
number of species have an unbroken distribution 
throughout the district from north to south, though they 
may be limited from east to west, according, that is to 
the greater or less distance from the sea or to the higher 
or lower position on the general upward slope of the 
country. On the savannah, the general level of which 
probably corresponds more or less closely with the gene- 
ral le'vel of the main table-land ot that part of the conti- 
nent, the distribution of the main species is still more 
even and monotonous. On almost every part of the 
savannah certain grasses, certain dwarf shrubs and certain 
herb-like plants, form the main vegetation. Yet a few 
remaining parts are marked by the occurrence of certain 
distinct and, as for the convenience of the name we may 
call them, localized species, which are scattered more or 
less widely among the more ordinary forms. And again, 
a very few other parts are still more distinctly marked, 
are made very distinct areas, by the more or less com- 
