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Transcription
Madagascar has one balanced
flora - prob up Scene Flora of
Africa.
Relict Survival
Continental break up and
shifting to oceanic position when
the climate is specable
Madagascar separated from Africa
after late E^? 1?
Flora HOO k sep from generic
marked Madagascar by superstatic
route.
Fiji and New Caledonia drifted from
Delegeneria Balanophoraceae.
Fiji drifted further east & more dry.
Woody Randevun still take
of record from extinction
in Hamelays
Canary Islands a
sample of pro. more underplaid
African fl.