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Oliver, Daniel, and others. Flora of tropical Africa, v. 1-10, pt. 1. 22.5 cm. 

 London, 1868-1937. 



Descriptive flora of spermatophytes, with keys, synonymy, local and general 

 range, citation of exsiccatae. Specimens cited are grouped under the following 

 geographical regions as defined in vol. 7: Upper Guinea (west coast region, from 

 the mouth of the Senegal River to Lake Chad, south to the southern boundary 

 of Cameroons, including Fernando Po) ; North Central (the Sahara north to 

 the Tropic of Cancer, eastward to about 26° E. Long., south to border of Upper 

 Guinea and Belgian Congo) ; Nile Land (the Nile Basin from the 26th meridian 

 to the coast, south to border of Belgian Congo and Tanganyika) ; Lower Guinea 

 (west coast region from southern boundary of Cameroons to Tropic of Capricorn, 

 bounded on the east by Belgian Congo, Rio Kwango, and the 20th meridian) ; 

 South Central (Belgian Congo, and Angola east of the 20th meridian) ; Mozam- 

 bique (Tanganyika, Mozambique, Rhodesia, etc., south to the Tropic of Capri- 

 corn). Vol. 1-3 were written by Oliver, with the assistance of other botanists 

 at Kew, especially W. P. Hiern and J. G. Baker ; the remaining volumes, written 

 mostly by the botanists at Kew, were edited by W. T. T. Dyer (v. 4-6, pt. 1, 

 v. 7-8), David Prain (v. 6, pt. 2, v. 9), and A. W. Hill (v. 10, pt. 1). Not yet 

 completed. 



Unwin, A. H. West African forests and forestry. 527 p. 110 fig. on 

 plates. 26 cm. London, 1920. 



Includes annotated lists, with vernacular names and uses, of the trees of Gam- 

 bia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroons; 

 briefly annotated bibliography. 



ZANZIBAR 



See also West Africa (Giirke; Oliver). 



General 



Sacleux, Charles, pere. Essai de catalogue des plantes de Zanzibar, Pemba, 

 Mombassa, Amou et de la grande terre en face de ces lies jusqu'a la ligne de 

 partage des eaux entre la cote et les grands lacs, xxxvi p. 17 cm. [Zanzibar, 

 18-?] (Extrait de Dictionnaire francais Swahili. Zanzibar, 1888-91.) 



Systematic list, with localities and vernacular names. 



Werth, Emil. Die vegetation der insel Sansibar. 97 p. 6 fig., map. 24.5 

 cm. Berlin, 1901. (Inaug.-diss., Bern. — Reprinted from Mitt. Seminars Orient. 

 Sprach. Univ. Berlin v. 4, abt. 3. 1901.) 



Mainly ecological ; includes sections on cultivated plants and weeds ; no list of 

 species. 



Australasia 



Here used in a restricted sense to include only Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, 

 the other islands commonly included in Australasia being given under Insular Floras. 



AUSTRALIA 



See also Tasmania (Hooker). 



Bailey, F. M. Concise history of Australian botany. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens- 

 land 8 (2) : xvii-xli, xlv-xlvii. 1891. 



Annotated list of collectors, chronologically arranged. 



Bentham, George. Flora australiensis : a description of the plants of the 

 Australian territory. 7 v. 22 cm. London, 1863-78. 



Collections examined ; descriptive flora of vascular plants, with keys, synonymy, 

 local and general range ; includes the plants of Tasmania. Title page says "by 

 George Bentham . . . assisted by Ferdinand Mueller . . . ," but in preface (v. 1, 

 p. 12*) Bentham states "I alone am therefore responsible for the details of this 

 work, for the limitation given to genera and species, for their characters and 

 description." 



Cheel, Edwin. A review of the flora of the arid and semi-arid regions of 

 Australia. Rpt. Austral, and New Zeal. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 23 : 307-337. 1937. 



Brief account of botanical explorations, forage plants, erosion control, bibli- 

 ography ; mostly unannotated list of plants recorded from the region. 



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