Orchids, Araceoe, Zinziberacese, and ferns are especially abundant, and the genus Grammatophyllum a gigantic epiphytal orchid, whose clusters of leaves Tiffany Cufflinks and flower-stems Tiffany Bracelets are ten or twelve feet long is peculiar to it. Here, too, is the domain of the wonderful pitcher-plants (Nepenthaceae), which are only represented Swarovski Bracelets elsewhere by solitary species in Ceylon, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Tiffany Pendants Those celebrated Tiffany Earrings fruits, the mangosteen and the Tiffany and co durion, are natives of this region, and will hardly grow out of the Archipelago. The mountain plants of Java have already been alluded to as showing a former Indo-malay Islands. connection with the continent of Asia and a still more extraordinary and more ancient connection with Australia has been indicated by Mr.
Low's collections from the summit of Kini-balou, the loftiest mountain Swarovski Outlet in Borneo. Plants have much greater facilities for passing across Swarovski Crystal arms of the sea than animals. The lighter seeds are easily carried by the winds, and many of them are specially adapted to be so carried. Others can float a long time unhurt in the water, and are drifted by winds and currents to distant shores. Pigeons, and other fruit-eating birds, are also the means of distributing plants, since the seeds readily germinate after passing through their bodies. It thus happens that plants which grow on shores and lowlands have a wide distribution, Nike Shox and it requires an extensive knowledge of the species of each island to determine the relations of their floras with any approach to accuracy.
At present we have no such complete knowledge of the botany of the several islands of the Archipelago and it is only by such striking phenomena as the occurrence of northern and even European genera on the summits of the Javanese mountains that we can prove the former connection of that island with the Asiatic continent. With land animals, however, the case is very different. Their means of passing a wide expanse of sea are far more restricted. Their distribution has been more accurately studied, and we possess a much more complete knowledge of such groups as mammals and birds in most of the islands Nike outlet than we do of the plants.