Abstract
THE Malay Peninsula, for which the opening volume of a Flora by Mr. H. N. Ridley has been published “under the authority of the Government of the Straits Settlements,” is an important and, save for the narrow northern section nearest Siam, a typical province of the Tropical Rain-Forest Region. Though Europeans secured a footing in this Peninsula four centuries ago, the survey of its vegetation was long deferred. The Portuguese, who occupied Malacca in 1511, had done little before their expulsion by the Dutch in 1641. The Dutch, who, with two short breaks (1795–1801 and 1807–18), owned Malacca till 1825 scarcely did more. Rumpf, whose “Herbarium Amboinense” (1750), completed on September 20, 1690, surveys the vegetation of the Malay Archipelago, avoided dealing with Malacca. Rumpf regarded the Malay Peninsula as belonging to continental India, and Valentijn, in his “Oost-Indien.” (1726), held the same view.
The Flora of the Malay Peninsula.
By H. N. Ridley. Vol. 1: Polypetal”. Pp. xxxv + 918. (London: L. Reeve and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 63s. net.
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The Flora of the Malay Peninsula . Nature 111, 6–7 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111006a0
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