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“...139) that also numerically this influence
is stronger on the flora of the Dutch W. I. Islands than on that
of Portorico.
Still I should conclude from what I have personally seen and
from the tables about the distribution of the Antilles plants and
of the purely South American ones, that the outward appearance
of the vegetation, in spite of the typical Cereus. species which
are either indigenous or South American and indigenous plants
like Casearia bonairensis, Phyllanthus Euwensii, is chiefly due to
the Antilles plants.
To this should be added, however, that among the typically South
American plants there are a number which, although they do
not form a typical part of the vegetation, still occur in particularly
interesting spots, those namely where culture has least intruded
and which ar most inaccessible. Such are: Triplaris coriacea,
Capparis linearis, Tecoma chrysantha, Capparis tenuisiliqua.
Now these are exactly plants which occur in St. Martha and in
the part of South America which...”
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