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CUBA 



General 



Fors, A. J. Las maderas cubanas ... [2. ed.?] 106 p. 22.5 cm. Habana, 1937. 

 (1st ed., 1929.) 



Annotated list of trees, alphabetically arranged by vernacular names; list of 

 vernacular names arranged by families. Publication of the Direccion de montes 

 y minas. Secretaria de agricultura, comercio y trabajo, Cuba. 



Gomez de la Maza, Manuel. Ensayo de farmacofitologia cubana. Resumen 

 de las propiedades medicinales, con especialidad las recientemente estudiadas, 

 de muchas plantas indigenas 6 de cultivo . . . 112 p. 19.5 cm. Habana, 1889. 



Briefly annotated list of 179 cellular and vascular plants, with vernacular 

 names and uses. 



and Roig y Mesa, J. T. Flora de Cuba. Bol. Bstac. Expt. Agron. 



Santiago de las Vegas 22. 178 p. 33 pi., 4 port., map. 1914. 



Of value chiefly for its vernacular names (separately indexed) and notes on 

 economic plants, these classed according to uses. Contains also botanical 

 statistics, list of fossil plants, and short notes on Cuban herbaria, collectors, 

 and botanical works. Not a flora. 



Grisebach, A. H. R. Catalogus plantarum cubensium exhibens collectionem 

 Wrightianam aliasque minores ex insula Cuba missas. iv, 301 (i. e. 303) p. 

 22 cm. Lipsiae, 1866. 



The fundamental list of Cuban vascular plants. Includes citation of exsic- 

 catae, but not specific localities ; separate index of vernacular names. Contains 

 3,263 species (2,984 phanerogams), of which 939 (929) are endemic. 



Leon, J. S. S., hermano. Las exploraciones botanicas de Cuba. Mem. Soc. 

 Cubana Hist. Nat. "Felipe Poey" 3: 178-224. port, map. 1918. (Reprinted.) 



General review of botanical explorations in Cuba from earliest times to 1917 ; 

 bibliographies. The map shows the principal localities at which collections have 

 been made. 



Montague, Camille, and Richard, Achille. Flora cubana, 6 descripcion 

 botanica usos y aplicaciones de las plantas reunidas en la isla de Cuba por 

 D. Ramon de la Sagra. 3 v. and atlas of 122 pi. (20 col.). 40 cm. Paris, 

 1845-55(56). (Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba, por D. 

 Ramon de la Sagra. Segunda parte, Historia natural, tomo IX-XII, Botanica.) 



Vol. I : Climate, calendar of flowering, etc. ; systematic list of vascular and 

 cellular plants, etc. (the cryptogams by Montagne). Vol. 2-3: Descriptive flora 

 of 1,248 phanerogams, with vernacular names, by Richard. There is also an 

 incomplete French edition (see Urban, Symb. An till. 1: 146. 1898). 



Roig y Mesa, J. T. Diccionario botanico de nombres vulgares cubanos. Bol. 

 Estac. Expt. Agron. Santiago de las Vegas 54. viii, 897 p. 48 pi. 1928. 



Bibliography ; annotated list of vernacular names of wild and cultivated 

 plants with botanical equivalents ; brief descriptions, local occurrence, uses. 



Sauvalle, F. A. Flora cubana. Enumeratio nova plantarum cubensium vel 

 revisio catalogi Grisebachiani, exhibens descriptiones generum specierumque 

 novarum Caroli Wright, (Cantabrigiae) et Francisci Sauvalle, synonymis nomini- 

 busque vulgaribus cubensis (sic) adjectis. 324 p. 25.5 cm. Havanae, 1873. 



Systematic list of 3,350 vascular plants mostly collected by Charles Wright, 

 with vernacular names and some synonyms ; Wright's collecting numbers cited 

 only from p. 49 on. Vernacular names separately indexed. Originally appeared 

 in Anales R. Acad. Cien. Habana v. 5-9. 1868-1873. For information about 

 Wright's work in Cuba, see Underwood, L. M. A summary of Charles Wright's 

 explorations in Cuba. Bui. Torrey Club 32: 291-300. map. 1905. (Reprinted 

 as Contrib. Dept. Bot. Columbia Univ. no. 217.) 



Segui, D. H. Ojeada sobre la flora medica y toxica de Cuba. 93 p. Habana, 

 1900. 



Annotated list of medicinal plants, with vernacular names ; bibliography. 

 Not seen; data taken from Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 11. 1902. 



