Lanterna Rally

Author: Thomas Anderson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-07

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780364085189

Excerpt from Florula Adenensis: A Systematic Account, With Descriptions, of the Flowering Plants Hitherto Found at Aden The desert flora, of which these species form a part, attains its greatest breadth in the African desert, about 5° east longitude, where it covers the territory'between the 10th and 37th degrees of north latitude. In Asia, though prolonged into Scinde and the western portion of the Punjab, it is diminished in breadth to 7° or 8° of latitude; its southern limit being 23° north latitude in Scinde, and 30° or 31° north latitude in Afi'ghanistan and the Pun jab. The limits of this vegetation may be defined as follows Starting from its headquarters, the 'rainless region of Arabia, the flora extends over the peninsula of Arabia, with the exception of the south-western mountainous district, and along the shores of the Persian Gulf, whence it spreads into Southern Persia. It in eludes the whole of Beloochistan, South Afi'ghanistan, Scinde, and a part of the Punjab. West from Arabia Petraea the flora passes into Egypt and N ubia, and partially into Abyssinia, and extends over the African desert to Senegal; finding its western limit in the Cape de Verd Islands. Even there it retains many of its most desert types, as is shown by the flora of these islands containing twenty-nine genera common also to Aden and other parts of Arabia, and eleven species absolutely identical: a resemblance the more remarkable from the small number of species composing the Cape de Verd Flora. Webb, in the Spicilegia Gorgonica, ' enu merates only 235 species of flowering plants, of which the follow ing genera are represented at Aden. Those plants of which the specific name is given are identical in both floras. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.