. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. iallyfor its Heaths(39), of whichseveral hundredspecies areknown. Inmany parts they form exensive woods, some reaching over 12 feet in height, andbeing covered with beautiful flowers during a large part of the year. TheLilies, Amaryllises, Orchids, and Pelargoniums (41) of the Cape are alsowell known, and carpet the ground with showy flowers in Septemberand October. Wheat is
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. iallyfor its Heaths(39), of whichseveral hundredspecies areknown. Inmany parts they form exensive woods, some reaching over 12 feet in height, andbeing covered with beautiful flowers during a large part of the year. TheLilies, Amaryllises, Orchids, and Pelargoniums (41) of the Cape are alsowell known, and carpet the ground with showy flowers in Septemberand October. Wheat is largely produced in Cape Colony; the Vine,introduced two centuries ago, yields beautiful grapes from which goodwine is made, in the south-west ; and sub-tropical andEuropean fruits the deserts north of theCape, plants of a dry typewith succulent stems andleathery skins, protectedby strong hooks andprickles, abound. TheAloes (34, 35), Euphorbias(36), and Acacias (31), in-clude some of these. Me-sembryanthemums, withtheir variously colouredflowers, are abundant at the Cape; the Ice-Plant (38), naturalised in theMediterranean region, is remarkable for being covered with shining 1. DATE PALM. 2. DOUM 3. TAMAKIND. 4. DHURBA. 5. RICE. 70D AFRICAN PLANTS. vesicles containing a gummy principle insoluble in water. An interestingaffinity of the Cape vegetation to that of Australia is shown by the number of members of theorder Proteacese (37) foundin both regions. The flowersare notable for their extraordinary of allthe Southern desert plants,but extending even up tonear the Congo region, istheWelwitschia (32), which,being allied to the Coni-ferous plants, has a trunkonly two feet high, with along woody root, and ending
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