98 MISC. PUBLICATION 4 01, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Local 



Alleizette, Charles d\ and Poisson, Henri. Contribution a l'etude de la 

 vegetation des environs de Tananarive. Bui. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17: 171-189. 

 1911. 



General features of vegetation, plant zones ; annotated tabular list of vascular 

 plants, grouped by habitat, with vernacular names, based on observations made 

 in 1905 and 1906. 



Jeannot, Eugene. Les productions vegetales de la region des Betsimisaraka- 

 Betanimena (Madagascar). Revue Cult. Colon. 8: 38-44, 73-77, 97-102, 134-142, 

 168-176, 201-206, 231-233. 1901. (Reprinted 39 p.) 



Native tribes, climate, plant zones; annotated list of useful plants, with 

 vernacular names and botanical names when known, grouped by uses. (Cen- 

 tral eastern Madagascar, from Antongile to Mananjary, west to the east ridge 

 of the basin of Mangoro and the mountains of Tanala.) 



Lecomte, Henri. Madagascar. Les bois de la foret d'Analamazaotra . . . 

 avec la collaboration de M. Paul Danguy . . . 188 p. 56 pi. 32.5 cm. Paris, 1922. 



Mainly concerned with anatomical features of the woods, but contains illus- 

 trations of many species, with vernacular names and uses. 



Perrier de la Bathie, Henri. Le Tsaratanana, l'Ankaratra et l'Andringitra. 

 Mem. Acad. Malgache 3. 68, [3] p. map. 1927. 



Includes (p. 53-66) lists of endemic plants of these three mountain groups. 



Poisson, Henri. Recherches sur la flore meridionale de Madagascar. 230 p. 

 30 fig., 16 pi. (incl. 3 maps). 25 cm. Paris, 1912. 



General summary of physiography, climate, etc. ; study of xerophytic plants, 

 etc. ; short list of vernacular names with botanical identifications, bibliography. 



Viguier, Rene, and Humbert, Henri. Plantes recoltees a Madagascar en 1912. 

 Bui. Soc. Linn. Normandie VII, 3: 325-356. 1921; 4: 37-52. 1922; 5: 125-140. 

 1923; 6: 169-200. 1924; 7: 193-208. 1925. 



List of spermatophytes collected by authors, with data, vernacular names, 

 and frequent annotations. Unfinished; reaches Orchidaceae (part). 



MALDIVE ISLANDS 



General 



"Willis, J. C, and Gardiner, J. S. The botany of the Maldive Islands. Annals 

 Roy. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya 1 : 45-164. pi. 2. 1901. 



Botanical explorations, physiography, etc. ; annotated list of all vascular plants 

 known from the Maldives, Laccadives, and Chagos, with vernacular names, 

 uses, etc. ; notes on vegetation of various atolls ; index of Maldivian vernacular 

 names ; economic plants, classified by uses ; origin of flora. 



MASCARENE ISLANDS 



See also French Guiana (Lanessan, Les plantes utiles, p. 188-213, 528-582, for useful 

 plants of Reunion). 



Local 



Baker, J. G. Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles : a description of the 

 flowering plants and ferns of those islands. 19, L, 557 p. 22 cm. London, 1877. 



Botanical collections, physiography, statistics of flora (1,327 species) ; descrip- 

 tive flora; vernacular names (separate index). — See also Johnston, H. H. Addi- 

 tions to the flora of Mauritius as recorded in Baker's "Flora of Mauritius and 

 the Seychelles." Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 20: ■391-407. 1S95. (An- 

 notated list of 103 species, including cellular cryptogams, not recorded in Baker's 

 Flora.) — Also Vaughan, R. E. Contributions to the flora of Mauritius. — I. An 

 account of the naturalized flowering plants recorded from Mauritius since the 

 publication of Baker's "Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles" (1877). Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 51: 285-308. 1937. (Discussion of methods of introduction; 

 annotated list, with descriptions ; bibliography. ) 



Balfour, I. B. Botany [of Rodriguez]. In An account of the penological, 

 botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez 

 during the Transit of Venus expeditions . . . 1874-75. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 168 (extra vol.) : 302-387. pi. 19-36. 1879. 



