Wallace Line connected islands on the west (Sumatra, Java, etc.) with the Asian continent and with similar wildlife, and islands on the east such as New Guinea were connected to Australia and were characterised by the presence of marsupials. Wallace used his extensive travel in the region to propose a line to the east of Bali since "all the islands eastward of Borneo and Java formed part of an Australian or Pacific Continent, from which they were separated." The name 'Wallace's Line' was first used by Thomas Huxley in an 1868 paper to the Zoological Society of London, but showed the line
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