GEOGRiPHICAL DISTEIBITTIOX
expect that the geaiis will yet be reported both from Borneo and from Sumatra.
Whether it may occur in Celebes is rather more doubtful, and Baron von Mueller lias
kindly assured me that it has not yet been reported from New Guinea or from tropical
North Australia. The richest district so far as is at present known 13 Assam, but it may
be expected that in course of time some of the remtiining Indo-Chinese districts which
are at present very inadequately known will yield perhaps as many species as docs Assam.
In discussing the distributional features of the genus, it is clear that the idea
conveyed by an exhibition of all the forms described in the text would be somewhat
misleading, since from what has been said above it is evident that they are of rather
imequal morphological and systematic value. For even if it be convenient to continue
to recognise forms like G. crinitum or G. Fhilippimnim as specifically separable from
their nearest allies, they must nevertheless be looked upon as nothing more than
representatives in their respective localities of these allies. Following, therefore, the
example of Sir Joseph Hooker in his essay on the Distribiiiion of Arctic Plants {Trans.
Linn. Soe. xxiii) the 'natiu-al' groups given in the right-haud column of Tabld I as
well as the ' artificial' species enumerated in the left-hand column are employed in
calculating percentages. The subjoined table and the map which illustrates it exhibit fully
the distribution both of these groups and of the reooguisable forma that constitute
them.
T a b l e V.—Distribution of the genus Gompiiostesima.
DISTEICTS ; S. CHIKA, BUEiTA, TUiS'irAN, SIAM.
G. strobilmum,
(1. (;. ir,i il/ri l'i).
cor. tipica (2. O. ifroic/insm tyuo)
nr. nana (2. (S. itr^UU^m t.-it
h. G. Hcj-neiuium (1, G. EeyticaAsai).
1, microcalyx (7. <J. miercnls^)
roGr. .f aprainrvoisaao r(u3m. , C. /wi-ciianu/i v;
ra=r. nt.y OpTicKa i/;v for««B ooth.) .,. '... fw-m — (rvc G. piuriflonim (8.
jiai-i-iif'irnw rar. a)
fm-m ^ G. àiebctomum Xoll. <t- Mor....
ffoomrm =. =G .b' T«b'.o mGa.o ncrii a(8it.u mO .( 1T0k. om(Jm. i m-
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Species,
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1
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1
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,,..„. ...
A, 6, obbngura,
SCB-SP. gonuimi;
t;«r. typica;
/cm = G, PMl!,,piDar«m (12. G.
Piikppmajiim)
/•"•m = G. Scortcciiinii (13. 0.
fottìi = tna G, oblon'gum '(M, G.
. „ . • S s i ,
= G, javanicum (15. 0. jam-
- ferm. = G, niffosiim (16^ (7, rKjojusi)
!<tr. lucida (17. 0. Iwldum type) ...
tor. ctiDMions (17. do. var. S)
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...
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• ; ...
...
1
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j. G. phloBoidcs (IS. G. jMmoidu) ... ... .. ... 1 ...
Podunculata „,
l. G. peduncwiatum,
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I. G, ohincnse (21. O. chincKit) • ... ... ...
G, Slastersii (22, G. Matlersii)
-
... ...
K. G. voluUmm (23. G. nlulixum) ... 1 ... ... —!
0. G, ovatiam (21, G. omtm) ..
1 )'. G, meliMifoliuiB (25. G. melùafolixm)
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to a species very Marfj related to flT IT p ®" ° Arracar,), but betag
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