Pages 120, 121 of W. Boothby's An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds contain an explanation of infinitesimal generator, with the quotient:
$$\frac{1}{\Delta{t}}[f(\theta_{\Delta{t}}(p)) - {f}(p)]$$
Then the author assumes that $\hat{f} (x^{1}, \ldots, x^{n})$ is the local expression for $f \in C^{\infty}(p)$, and then he equals to the above quotient with
$$\frac{1}{\Delta{t}}[\hat{f}(h(\Delta{t}, x)) - \hat{f}(x)].$$
I am confused as to how these quotients may be equal.
I'd appreciate any useful explanation to help me out.
(I argue that $\theta : \mathbb{R} \times M \to M$ and $f : M \to \mathbb{R}$, so that $f \circ \theta : \mathbb{R} \times M \to \mathbb{R}$. On the other hand, $h : \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $\hat{f} : \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}$, which gives $ \hat{f} \circ h : \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}$.)
You put a chart $\phi:M\to\Bbb R^n$ in between, $$f∘θ=f∘\phi^{-1}∘\phi∘θ$$ and split in the middle, to get $$\hat f=f∘\phi^{-1},\\ h=\phi∘θ∘(id_{\Bbb R}, \phi^{-1})$$ with the described properties.