Does not Abyssinia highland, (341/1.

In a letter to Darwin, December 21st ( ?), 1858, Sir J.D.Hooker wrote: "Highlands of Abyssinia will not help you to connect the Cape and Australian temperate floras: they want all the types common to both, and, worse than that, India notably wants them.

Proteaceae, Thymeleae, Haemodoraceae, Acacia, Rutaceae, of closely allied genera (and in some cases species), are jammed up in S.W.Australia, and C.B.S.

[Cape of Good Hope]: add to this the Epacrideae (which are mere (paragraph symbol) of Ericaceae) and the absence or rarity of Rasaceae, etc., etc., and you have an amount [of] similarity in the floras and dissimilarity to that of Abyssinia and India in the same features that does demand an explanation in any theoretical history of Southern vegetation."), and the mountains on W.coast in some degree connect the extra-tropical floras of Cape and Australia?
To my mind the enormous importance of the Glacial period rises daily stronger and stronger.

I am very glad to hear about S.E.