| Abstract: | Plant links between eastern Asia and eastern Australia, regions showing considerable climatic differences, are discussed under five headings, namely, garden plants or ornamentals; naturalized plants; plants used in traditional Chinese medicine or Oriental Materia Medica; plants not yet well enough studied whose distribution suggests they may have originated in regions of the western Pacific; and comparisons between barnyardgrasses (Echinochloa spp.) in the two regions. A table is presented showing simple climatic data; mean monthly maximum and minimum temperatures and mean monthly and annual precipitation, along with latitude and altitude for 25 places extending from Monbetsu (about 44 N) in Hokkaido, Japan, through the subtropics and tropics to Hobart (approximately 43 S) in Tasmania, Australia. |
