CHAPTER XIV 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEST AFRICAN FORESTS 
1. HiIsToRICAL. 
One of the first books was Forestry in West Africa, by Sir Alfred 
Maloney, a former Governor of Lagos, which was published in 1887. 
This is a most interesting and readable book, and, for the time it was 
written, gives a very good account of many of the forest trees. It 
is also much to Sir A. Maloney’s credit that teak, Tectona grandis, was 
introduced into Nigeria at that time. 
In The Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termina- 
tion of the Niger, by Richard and John Lander, only very vague 
descriptions of the forests are given, and it is therefore not of much 
value from the Forestry point of view, though it is a most enter- 
taining description of the people and their doings at that time. 
2. BoTaNIcaL. 
From 1868 onwards, Flora of Tropical Africa appeared; so far 
eight volumes have been published. This work was planned by the 
late Sir William J. Hooker and edited first of all by Daniel Oliver, and 
subsequently by Sir W. T. Thistleton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., and 
now by Lieut.-Colonel D. Prain, the Director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew. Itis, of course, very scientific, accurate and botanical, 
but has very dry descriptions of many of the African trees and plants 
and no illustrations are contained in these octavo volumes. What 
also makes it harder to use this Flora is the fact that since 1868 many 
new plants have been named, and some of the names of the old plants 
have been altered. A most useful chapter on Elementary Botany 
is contained at the beginning of Vol. I. This is to some extent 
also a glossary of botanical terms, but of course it cannot take the 
place of A Glossary of Botanic Terms, by D. G. Jackson, 1905. 
In many ways a much more useful book to the forester is Engler’s 
Monographien der Pflanzenfamilien, of which eight volumes have 
appeared : 
I. Moracez, excluding Ficus. 
II. Melastomacez. 
III. Combretaceze Combretum. 
IV. Combretaceex, excluding Combretum. 
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