Wallace Line genus of plants which does not cross the Line is the Australasian genus "Eucalyptus". Antonio Pigafetta had recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the line) in 1521 during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, after Magellan had been killed on Mactan. Moreover, as noted by Wallace himself, the observations in faunal differences between the two regions had already been made earlier by English navigator George Windsor Earl. In Earl's pamphlet "On the Physical Geography of South-Eastern Asia and Australia", published in 1845, he described how shallow seas
Cyrtostachys renda Cyrtostachys renda Cyrtostachys renda, also known by the common names red sealing wax palm and lipstick palm, is a palm that is native to Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. It is the only species of the genus "Cyrtostachys" that can be found to the west of the Wallace Line, the faunal boundary separating the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea. "Cyrtostachys renda"s name is derived from several words: the Greek prefix κυρτό- ("cyrto-") meaning bent or curved, the Greek word σταχυς ("stachys") meaning "an ear of grain", and "renda" a Malayan Aboriginal word for palm, which happens to be