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



WEST AFRICA 



Under this heading are included general works covering all or much of the region 

 from Mauritania to Angola, inclusive. 



Ascherson, Paul. Botanisch-ethnographische notizen aus Guinea. Aus den 

 aufzeichnungen von Thonning in Schumacher's Beskrivelse af Guineiske 

 planter. Zeitschr. Ethnol. 11: 231-258. 1879. 



Annotated list of 166 wild and cultivated plants, mostly economic, with 

 vernacular names (indexed). Refers to the region of "Upper Guinea." 



Chevalier, Auguste. Enumeration des plantes cultivees par les indigenes en 

 Afrique tropicale et des especes naturalisees dans le meme pays et ayant proba- 

 blement ete cultivees a une epoque plus on moins reculee. Bui. Soc. Natl. 

 Acclim. France 59: 65-79, 104-110, 133-138, 239-242, 312-318, 341-346, 386-392. 

 1912. 



Systematic list of about 293 species and varieties, with brief notes on origin 

 and area where cultivated. Covers region from Mauritania to Congo. 



Enumeration des plantes recoltees dans les regions suivantes : Mauri- 



tanie, Oasis sahariennes, Senegal, Casamance, Guinee franchise, Soudan fran- 

 gais, Cote d'lvoire, Dahomey et en outre Gold-Coast, Sierra-Leone, Lagos, Old- 

 Calabar, xiii, 798 p. port., map. 25 cm. Paris, 1920 1 . (Exploration botanique 

 de 1' Afrique occidentale franchise, t. 1.) 



List of vascular and cellular plants collected by the author and associates, 

 with localities, collectors' numbers, vernacular names, and occasional annotations. 



Dalziel, J. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa . . . Being an 

 appendix to the Flora of west tropical Africa . . . xi, 612 p. 25.5 cm. 

 London, 1937. 



Bibliography ; annotated systematic list of spermatophytes, with vernacular 

 names and their localities, uses, and references. Covers same area as Hutchin- 

 son and Dalziel, Flora of west tropical Africa. The information and references 

 in Holland's The useful plants of Nigeria are not repeated, but references to his 

 work are given under each species. 



G-urke, Max. Uebersicht liber die gebiete des tropischen Afrika, in welchen 

 deutsche reisende ihre im Berliner Botanischen Museum niedergelegten 

 sammlungen zusammen brachten, mit angabe der wichtigsten, fiber ihre reisen 

 und deren ergebnisse veroffentlichten aufsatze. In Engler, A. Beitrage zur 

 flora von Afrika I. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 14: 279-292. 1891. 



Briefly annotated list of collectors and their itineraries, with bibliographies. 



Hua, Henri. Les explorations botaniques dans les colonies franchises de 

 FAfrique tropicale, d'apres les collections conservees au Museum d'histoire 

 naturelle de Paris. Actes Cong. Internatl. Bot. l er Paris, 1900. p. 239-247. 

 1900. 



Brief account of principal collectors in Senegal, French Guinea, French Sudan, 

 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, and French Equatorial Africa (French Congo). 



Hutchinson, John, and Dalziel, J. M. Flora of west tropical Africa. The 

 British west African colonies, British Cameroons, the French and Portuguese 

 colonies south of the Tropic of Cancer to Lake Chad, and Fernando Po. 2 v. 

 381 fig., 2 maps. 26 cm. London, 1927-36. 



General features of flora, botanical explorations, bibliography, glossary, key 

 to families; systematic list of spermatophytes, with keys, note on habit, refer- 

 ences, citation of localities and exsiccatae. Covers area along Tropic of Cancer 

 from coast east to the western boundary of Chad Territory (about 15° E.), 

 then south along the eastern border of Nigeria to the coast, including Cameroon 

 Mountain, Fernando Po, and the smaller islands off the coast, the whole nearly 

 equivalent to the "Upper Guinea" of the Flora of Tropical Africa. 



Moller, A. F. Medizinische pflanzen Westafrikas. Ber. Deut. Pharm. 

 Gesell. 8: 46-53, 93-100, 240-243. 1898. 



Briefly annotated list of medicinal species of "Ober- und Unter-Guinea," in 

 part systematically arranged, with occasional vernacular names. 



Moloney, Alfred. Sketch of the forestry of West Africa, with particular 

 reference to its present principal commercial products, vi, 533 p. 20 cm. 

 London, 1887. 



Includes (p. 269^58) briefly annotated "list of economic plants of western 

 Africa," by J. M. Hillier. Covers principally the regions of Upper Guinea and 

 Lower Guinea, as defined in Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa. 



