Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 Plant-Dispersal
CHAPTER XXVI
THE ERA OF THE NON-ENDEMIC GENERA OF FLOWERING PLANTS (_continued_)
THE AGE OF MALAYAN PLANTS (_continued_)
THE AGE OF WIDE DISPERSAL OVER THE TROPICAL PACIFIC (_continued_)
The widely dispersed genera that are as a rule not entirely represented by endemic species in any archipelago.—Elæocarpus.—Dodonæa.—Metrosideros.—Alyxia.—Alphitonia.—Pisonia.—Wikstrœmia.—Peperomia.—Eugenia.—Gossypium.—The last stage in the general dispersal of plants of the Malayan era as illustrated by the widely-dispersed genera having as a rule no peculiar species.—Rhus.—Osteomeles.—Plectronia.—Boerhaavia.—Polygonum.—Pipturus.—Dianella.—Summary.
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