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Table VII. Relationship of General Distribution to Habit and Habitat. 
Habit. 
Habitat. 
Total. 
1 Climbers. | 
1 Trees. 
1 8hrubs. 
Herbs. 
Distributional Features. 
Ph 
OQ 
0) 
> 
'p 
O 
Weeds. 
Forest sp. 
Marsh. 
Littoral. 
Marine. 
Epiphytic. 
Parasitic or 
Saprophytic. 
Total, 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Poly- 
70 
14 
5 
2 
49 
nesia 
12 
16 
6 
6 
12 
8 
2 
8 
70 
In tropics of both Hemispheres, but 
hardly cosmopolitan. 
3 
1 
1 
1 
America, Africa, Asia, Australia 
... 
2 
1 
3 
2 
2 
America, Africa, Asia, Polynesia 
... 
1 
1 
2 
3 
1 
1 
1 
America, Africa, Asia 
... 
*”2 
1 
3 
2 
2 
America, Asia 
2 
2 
Widely distributed in Eastern Hemi¬ 
spheres ; not in America. 
29 
7 
13 
4 
5 
Africa, Asia, Australia, Polynesia 
2 
26 
1 
29 
12 
1 
3 
3 
5 
Africa, Asia, Australia 
3 
3 
5 
1 
12 
2 
1 
1 
Africa, Asia, Polynesia ... 
1 
"i 
2 
6 
i 
1 
2 
2 
Africa, Asia ... 
""2 
i 
2 
"i 
... 
6 
Confined to Asia and Australasia. 
15 
2 
2 
3 
8 
Asia, Australia, Polynesia 
10 
1 
3 
1 
15 
23 
8 
7 
6 
2 
Asia, Australia 
'16 
6 
1 
23 
3 
1 
• . . 
2 
Asia, Polynesia 
2 
1 
3 
188 
43 
59 
28 
58 
SoutF-Eastern Asia only ... 
3 
2 
129 
4 
16 
7 
12 
15 
188 
358 
78 
94 
48 
138 
Totals 
15 
18 
162 
14 
80 
19 
21 
29 
358 
In discussing tlie phytogeographic distribution of these species 
within the province of South-Eastern Asia it is necessary to distinguish 
between the districts forming the Western section, viz .:—the lower 
Himalayan slopes with the plains at their foot, Peninsular India, and 
Ceylon—fi’omthe Eastern section, which comprises Southern China, Indo- 
China, Malaya, including the Philippines, New Guinea, and the coasts of 
Northern or Tropical Australia. Of the 358 species in the Coco Islands, 
which therefore necessarily all occur in the Eastern section, 252 species, 
or 70 per cent., are found in the Western section as well. Of the whole 
number 153 species, or 43 per cent., extend to Australia, whereas only 
140, or 39 per cent., are known to occur in South China. 
The following tables indicate the distribution of the species so far 
as these three portions of S. E. Asia are concerned. 
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