Tropical and subtropical part of the Western Atlantic, coast of Brazil, &c.
The only tall tree is the Australian Eucalyptus, which though only recently introduced, is now common in the subtropical parts of South America, and already makes a figure in the landscape, for it is a fast grower.
Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
Defn: A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers.
It is very common in subtropical countries, notably in Italy and in southern China.
The trees that bore them, when scattered over hillsides that sloped steeply to the brink of some rushing river, made splashes of burning red against the wet and vivid green of the subtropical foliage.
Found in southern California and in tropical and subtropical seas.
It [pg074] is a tropical and subtropical genus, and has one hundred and fifty species.
Parrots and paroquets are numerous everywhere in the tropical and subtropical regions, as also the gorgeously coloured macaw and awkward toucan.
The temperate and subtropical regions cover the greater part of the departments traversed by the Eastern Cordillera, the northern end of the Central Cordillera, the Santa Marta plateaus, and the Upper Cauca Valley.
After sailing from Southampton one soon leaves behind the cold, chilly winds of the temperate climate and begins to enjoy the soft, balmy breezes of the subtropical climate.
In this warm, moist, subtropical climate of the coast many delicious and tropical fruits are grown.
Napo' region on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes, and from Nanegal, Gualea, and other localities on the Pacific side rarely below the Subtropical Zone.
Subtropical Life-zone of western Ecuador (locality given as Quito, probably because received from that place).
Pacific coastal regions of Ecuador and Colombia; Subtropical and Tropical life-zones.
Temperate to Subtropical life-zones of Venezuela and northern and western Colombia.
H]{b} is a general procyonid condition and that it represents a characteristic that evolved in response to the family's long association with tropical and subtropical forest environments.
The greater heat tolerance of these coatis is compatible with their diurnal habits and widespread distribution in a variety of forest habitats in both tropical and subtropical areas of the western hemisphere.
During the Miocene procyonids underwent a modest radiation within tropical and subtropicalclimates of North America's central and middle latitudes.
Although this pedigree contributed to the success of this family in tropical andsubtropical forests, it limited the ability of its members to expand their distributions into cooler, less stable climates.
Data on evaporative water loss, although not complete for all species, suggested that tropical and subtropical procyonids have less capacity for evaporative cooling than Procyon lotor or Bassariscus astutus.
Our speculation is supported by the fact that their known fossil history from the Miocene is confined to geographic areas that had tropical and subtropical climates.
Later on, during Pleistocene glaciations, tropical and subtropical forests shrank, savannas expanded, and temperate climate was pushed toward equatorial regions.
Another possible fiber industry for Florida is the cultivation of bowstring hemp, or the fiber of a species of Sansevieria that grows in rank luxuriance throughout the subtropical region of the State.
In the months of March and April the thermometer rose above ninety degrees; but the rest of the year the climate was subtropicalin character, and accounted cool as compared with the plains.
Still, after allowing for these poorer tracts, there remains an immense area of land which is fit to raise cereals and some subtropical crops such as cotton.
So, too, this corner round Cape Town has a vegetation characteristically its own, and differing markedly from that of the arid Karroo regions to the north, and that of the warm subtropical regions in the east of the Colony and in Natal.
The oxidation of organic material in a humid, subtropical environment causes the red color.
Since these bird fossils were found proximal to Fossil Butte, they demonstrate the near subtropical nature of the environment in the Fossil Butte area in Green River times.
The shoreline plant assemblage had a rather subtropical appearance.
A subtropical climate is indicated and the area was heavily wooded.
They are world-wide in their distribution, excepting the Arctic zone, though they are more common in the temperate and subtropical regions.
It is cultivated in various temperate and subtropical countries.
There are two types of outdoor gardening in which the progress of the season is not definitely expressed,--in the carpet-bedding kind, and in the subtropical kind.
They are much used for subtropical effects (see Plate V).
Tuberous-rooted, tender perennial plants used for conservatory decoration, and also for subtropical and bold effects in the lawn (Plate IV).
Some of the plants much used for subtropical bedding, and often started for that purpose in a greenhouse or coldframe, are:-- Acalypha.
Subtropical beds may give a very desirable temporary finish to places that are pretentious enough to make them seem in keeping.
On the sandy shores of subtropical beaches certain graceful and polished animals bury themselves from sight in the sand.
But no French visitor, so far as I know, has ever found it gloomy, even in flood or tempest on its subtropical stretches; nor has he found those level vastnesses desolate.
The evergreens largely predominate here as well as in the extreme south, and on the open, sunburnt plains the vegetation takes on a subtropical aspect.
The long dry season of this region makes irrigation necessary, and vegetation has something of a subtropical appearance, palms growing naturally as far south as 37 deg.
The genus is restricted to the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World.
Considerable attention is also given to fruit cultivation in these subtropical provinces, where the orange, lemon, fig, melon, pineapple and banana are produced with much success.
The group is practically limited to the tropical and subtropical parts of Central and South America, although one species of Otopterus reaches California.
The tribe Ocimoideae is exclusively tropical and subtropical and occurs in both hemispheres.
Lacroma is remarkable for the beauty of itssubtropical vegetation.
Here there was always shade by day, thanks to a screen of subtropical foliage, by night a deeper gloom than elsewhere on the veranda, and at all times a better show of privacy.
