Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, 1850, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, 1850, Vol. 2

The Galathea's stay at the Nicobars was during the height of the dry season (january and February), and yet I do not recollect having observed one single sound tree in a naked condition the forests being fully as verdant with foliage as with us in the month of June. This, however, is not dependent so much on a predominance of ever green trees, which are of frequent occurrence (aurantiacece, Clusz'acece, Rhizoplzorece, Myrtacece), as on their continued or, on the whole, little interrupted process of vegetation. As an instance of this I may mention that Thespesz'a populnea, Paritium tiliaeeum, Sterculia Balangkas, and Sopkom tomentosa, - trees with herbaceous, soft leaves, - were not only in full foliage, but in flower and fruit.

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