24 MISC. PUBLICATION 401, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Duchesne, PI. Les essences forestieres du Congo Beige III. Leurs denomi- 

 nations indigenes. 265 p. 27.5 cm. Ixelles-Bruxelles, 1938. 



Alphabetical list of vernacular names with botanical equivalents, with region 

 where used, dialect, and source of names ; systematic list of botanical names, 

 with vernacular equivalents. 



Durand, Theophile. Les explorations botaniques au Congo Beige et leurs 

 resultats. Bui. CI. Sci. Acad. Roy. Belg. 1909: 1347-1374. 1909. 



Chronological account of botanical explorations, with bibliography. 



and Durand, Helene. Sylloge florae congolanae (Phanerogamae). 



716 p. 26.5 cm. Bruxelles, 1909. (Also issued as Bui. Jard. Bot. Etat Bruxelles 

 v. 2. 1910.) 



List of botanical collectors, statistics: list of 3,546 phanerogams, with refer- 

 ences, synonyms, localities, and collectors; statistics for botanical districts. 

 Summarizes knowledge of the flora through 1908. — See also Wildeman, E. de. 

 Additions a la flore du Congo. Bui. Jard. Bot. Etat Bruxelles 4: 1-241. 1914: 

 5: 117-268, 269-364, 365-412. 1916-19; 6: 1-64, 65-129. 35 pi. 1919; 7: 1-88, 

 271-316. 1920-21. (Lists of additions to Sylloge, with localities and collectors' 

 numbers. The number of species is said to have reached 6,300 in 1915.) 



j Staner, Pierre. Plantes congolaises a fruits comestibles. Pub. Inst. Natl. 

 Etude Agron. Congo Beige Ser. Sci. no. 4. 56 p. 9 fig. [1935.] 



Annotated systematic list of native plants with edible fruits, with vernacular 

 names and description of fruit ; key to the genera, based on the fruit ; index of 



j vernacular names. 



and Boutique, It. Materiaux pour l'etude des plantes mexlicinales 



indigenes du Congo Beige. Mem. Sect. Sci. Nat. et Med. Inst. Roy. Colon. Beige 

 Collect. in-8°. v. 5, fasc. 6. 228 p. 17 fig. (partly on plates). 1937. 



Annotated systematic list of plants, with range and uses : bibliography. 



Wildeman, Emile de. A propos de medicaments indigenes congolais. Mem. 

 Sect. Sci. Nat. et Med. Inst. Roy. Colon. Beige Collect. in-8°. v. 3, fasc. 3. 127 p. 

 1935. 



General considerations, plants used for particular diseases ; list of vernacular 

 and botanical names. 



Documents pour l'etude de l'alimentation vegetale de l'indigene du 



Congo Beige. Mem. Sect. Sci. Nat. et Med. Inst. Roy. Colon. Beige Collect. in-8°. 

 v. 2, fasc. 4. 263 p. 1934. 



General considerations ; alphabetical list of vernacular and botanical names, 

 with brief annotations under the latter ; bibliography. 



Les forets congolaises et leurs principales essences economiques. 214 p. 



map. 25 cm. Bruxelles, 1926. (Bibliotheque-Congo no. 19.) 



Includes (p. 117-207) briefly annotated list of timber trees, alphabetically ar- 

 ranged by botanical names. 



Notices sur des plantes utiles ou interessantes de la flore du Congo. 



2 v. illus., plates. 23 cm. Bruxelles, 1903-08. (Publication de l'Etat indepen- 

 dant du Congo.) 



Discusses various species at considerable length, and includes annotated alpha- 

 betical list of vernacular names, with botanical equivalents, where known, of the 

 woods of the Congo and neighboring regions, with corresponding list of botanical 

 names (v. 1, p. 353-385). 



Remarques a propos de la foret equatoriale congolaise. Mem. Sect. 



Sci. Nat. et Med. Inst. Roy. Colon. Beige Collect. in-8°. v. 2, fasc. 2. 120 p. 



3 maps. 1934. 



Cited here for its bibliography (p. 112-120) of publications relating to the 

 forests of the Belgian Congo. 



Local 



Burtt, B. D. A botanical reconnaissance in the Virunga volcanoes of Kigezi 

 Ruanda, Kivu. Bui. Misc. Inform. Kew 1934: 145-165. 1 fig. (map), pi. 7. 

 1934. 



Running account of author's trip in 1930 with mention of plants collected. 

 The Virunga or Mufumbiro volcanoes are a particularly isolated range of peaks 

 that lie about 120 miles south of the Ruwenzori ice cap, in the great divide 

 between the east tropical African savannas and the forests of the Congo basin. 



