Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 / Plant-Dispersal
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Selala (Vanua Levu, Fiji) ( 1 ⁄ 3 ).
Fruits with seedlings nearly ready to fall from the tree of Rhizophora mangle (shortest) and Rhizophora mucronata (longest). From Vanua Levu, Fiji. ( 1 ⁄ 4 of the true length.)
Rhizophora mangle (Vanua Levu, Fiji) ( 1 ⁄ 4 ).
Rhizophora mucronata (Vanua Levu, Fiji) ( 1 ⁄ 5 ).
OBSERVATIONS OF
A NATURALIST IN
THE PACIFIC BETWEEN
1896 AND 1899
H. B. GUPPY, M.B., F.R.S.E.
H. B. Guppy
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
THE GROUPING OF THE FIJIAN LITTORAL PLANTS.
THE MODES OF DISPERSAL OF THE FIJIAN STRAND-PLANTS.
The First Group.
EXPLANATION OF THE DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING THE CAUSES OF SEED-BUOYANCY
The Second Group.
The Third Group.
Section I
Section II
Section III
Erythrina.
Canavalia.
Mezoneuron.
Sophora.
Ochrosia (Apocyneæ).
Section IV
Pandanus.
Barringtonia.
Section V.
Section VI.
Afzelia bijuga (Gray).
Entada scandens (Benth.).
Cæsalpinia
Introductory Remarks.
Comparison of the Areas and Altitudes of Hawaii, Fiji, and Tahiti.
Comparison of the Climates of Hawaii, Fiji, and Tahiti.
The Rainfall.
The Age of Ferns.
Synopsis of the Eras of the Flowering Plants in the Tropical Pacific.
The First Era of the Flowering Plants, being the Age of the Endemic Genera.
The Endemic Genera of Compositæ.
The Lobeliaceæ of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Lobeliaceæ of the Tahitian or East Polynesian Region.
The Hawaiian Endemic Genera excepting those of the Compositæ and Lobeliaceæ.
The Endemic Genera of the Fijian Islands.
The Age of the Endemic Genera of Flowering Plants.
The Mountain-Floras of the Pacific Islands.
The Mountain-Flora of Hawaii as illustrated by the Non-endemic Genera.
The Mountain-Flora of the Tahitian Region as Illustrated by the Non-Endemic Genera
The Fijian Coniferæ.
The Widely-dispersed Genera which possess only Peculiar Species in Hawaii.
Pittosporum (Pittosporeæ).
Reynoldsia (Araliaceæ).
Gardenia (Rubiaceæ).
Psychotria (Rubiaceæ).
Cyrtandra (Gesneraceæ).
Freycinetia (Pandanaceæ).
SAPINDUS AND PHYLLANTHUS.
Pritchardia (Palmaceæ).
Elæocarpus (Tiliaceæ).
Dodonæa (Sapindaceæ).
Metrosideros (Myrtaceæ)
Alyxia (Apocynaceæ).
Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Residual Genera.
Hawaiian Genera found in Tahiti to the Exclusion of Fiji.
Hawaiian Genera found in Fiji to the Exclusion of Tahiti.
The Absentees from Hawaii.
Tahiti.
The Tahitian Residual Genera.
Tahitian Genera found in Hawaii to the Exclusion of Fiji.
Tahitian Genera found in Fiji to the Exclusion of Hawaii.
The Absentees from Tahiti
Man and the Seed
The Food-Plants of the Polynesians and Pre-Polynesians
THE POLYNESIAN WEEDS
Aleurites Moluccana (The Candle-Nut Tree)
Inocarpus Edulis (The Tahitian Chestnut)
Gyrocarpus Jacquini
Serianthes myriadenia
Leucæna Forsteri
Mussænda frondosa
Luffa insularum
The Beach Drift of Temperate Latitudes
The Beach-Drift of Tropical Latitudes.
Rhizophora
Rhizophora mucronata.
Bruguiera rheedii (Blume)
The Convolvulus soldanella Zone (Southern Chile).
The Plantless or Desert Zone (Northern Chile).
The Sesuvium Zone (The Peruvian Coast).
The Mangrove Zone (the Coasts of Ecuador and Colombia)
GENERAL INDEX
