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DAHOMEY 



See also West Africa. 



General 



Bertherand, E. L. Acclimatation. Flore medicale de l'Afrique occidentale. 

 16 p. 25 cm. [Alger,] 1886. 



Annotated systematic list of medicinal and other useful plants of Dahomey, 

 based on the observations and collections of Abbe Cordioux. 



Local 



Hua, Henri. Une collection botanique du haut Dahomey et de la vallee du 

 Niger moyen, recoltee par M. de Gironcourt, en 1908-1910. Bui. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris 22: 330-335. 1916. 



Lists of angiosperms, with localities, collected at about 10° N. Lat. in 

 Dahomey, and in "Niger moyen." 



EGYPT 



See also Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Grant) ; West Africa (Oliver). E. Boissier, Flora 

 Orientalis (which includes Egypt south to the first cataract), and G. E. Post, Flora of 

 Syria, Palestine, and Sinai, will be given in the second part of this work. Papers refer- 

 ring particularly to the Sinai Peninsula, geographically a part of Asia but politically a 

 part of Egypt, are included under Egypt. 



General 



Ascherson, Paul, and Schweinfurth, Georg. Illustration de la flore d'Egypte. 

 Mem. Inst. Egyptien 2: 25-260. 1889 [1887].— Supplement. 1. c. 745-821. 1889. 



Botanical explorations, phytogeographical divisions; list of 1,316 spontane- 

 ous vascular plants (including supplement) with vernacular names and indi- 

 cation of distribution by districts; cultivated plants listed but not numbered; 

 index of vernacular names. The supplement includes a Florida Rhinocoluraea 

 (list of 305 vascular and cellular plants known from the vicinity of El-Arich) 

 and a Florida Sirbonis (list of 59 vascular and cellular plants collected at 

 Sebakh-el-Berdftwil), both by Ascherson only. Both localities are in the Sinai 

 Peninsula. 



Hartmann, Fernande. L'agriculture dans l'ancienne Egypte. 332 p. 76 fig. 

 24.5 cm. Paris, 1923. 



Includes chapter (p. 17-70) on wild and cultivated economic plants, classified 

 by uses. 



Issa Bey, Ahmed. Dictionnaire des noms des plantes en latin, frangais, 

 anglais et arabe. xiv, 227 p. port. 28 cm. Le Caire, 1930. 



Bibliography; alphabetical list of botanical names, with vernacular names 

 in the languages mentioned ; indices of vernacular names in each language, 

 including that in Arabic (with Arabic numbering of pages). 



Loret, Victor. La flore pharaonique dapres les documents hieroglyphiques et 

 les specimens decou verts dans les tombes. 2. ed., rev. et augm. 145 p. 25 cm. 

 Paris, 1892. (1st ed., 1887.) 



Bibliography ; annotated list of 202 vascular and cellular plants ; vernacular 

 names in French, Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, and hieroglyphic. 



Muschler, Reno. A manual flora of Egypt ... 2 v. 23 cm. Berlin, 1912. 



Descriptive flora of 1,503 vascular plants, with references, localities, and 

 Egyptian names ; botanical explorations, with bibliographical references ; 

 phytogeography, geology, climate ; tables showing local distribution of all the 

 species in Egypt, and their range in the Mediterranean Basin and elsewhere; 

 list of cultivated plants ; glossary : index of Arabian names. — See also Simpson, 

 N. D. Some supplementary records to Muschler's Manual flora of Egypt. In- 

 cluding many species collected by G. W. Murray. Bui. Tech. and Sci. Serv. 

 Min. Agr. Egypt no. 93. 59 p. 1930. (Records of 400 cellular and vascular 

 plants, including 220 species and varieties not in Muschler's Flora.) 



Ramis, A. I. Bestimmungstabellen zur flora von Aegypten. iv, 221 p. 25.5 

 cm. Jena, 1929. 



Flora of vascular plants, in form of keys, briefly annotated. 



