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Title: A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott), 1862-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London A.D. Innes & Co.
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
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of course, be noticed that the precedingfloral divisions are almost exactly those given forclimate. The Westerly Wet Flora occupies verynearly the Oil-palm region of the west coast, andthe Easterly Wet Flora the Oil or Cocoanut zoneon the east coast. The Central Ridge and its branch to the Masaihighlands contain the remaining climatic regions,viz., Coffee zone, Colony zone, and Cloud belt,but of course in every sub-division these are diffe-rently represented. The division of Africa is, in fact, the same, as ofcourse it should be, whether one divides it accord-ing to the meteorology, botany, or economical facts.Materials are, however, non-existent to give satis- BOTANY. 225 factory definitions of the sub-districts. Even inthe botany, which has been more studied than theother two sciences, I only know of three collec-tions worth mentioning on the Central Ridge andRuwenzori. There is a curious similarity between SouthAmerica and Africa which may, perhaps, be ex-plained by meteorologists.
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Fig. 33.—In the Victohia Region. Starting from the east coast, north of Mombasa,and crossing the continent one finds the followingfloral characters :—(1) A very wet jungle ; (2) adry thorn region, in parts desert; (3) a fertilemountainous country of woods and steppes ; (4) amuch drier country (Victoria region) ; (5) a moun-tainous region with woods and steppes and cloud 16 226 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. belts ; (6) a very wide wet jungle area (Congo)reaching to the Atlantic. Starting from the west coast of South Americaone has (1) A littoral strip ; (2) a dry, or in partsdesert country (Peru or Chili) ; (3) a fertile moun-tainous region with cloud belts and woods ; (4) adry desert valley; (5) another mountain chainwith woods and steppes; (6) a very wide wetjungle (Amazon, &c.) reaching to the Atlantic. It is only in the jungle character of No. 1 beingless marked in South America, and in the cloudbelt being in No. 3 instead of in No. 5 that thesesections differ. The similarity

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