Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Division 5: Africa
from II - Systematic bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Summary
I can only, in conclusion, express the hope that this somewhat monumental and, at any rate, laborious work [Flora of tropical Africa], may be found, as I believe certainly it will be, of real service to the material development of the resources of our African possessions. At the moment it perhaps is more appreciated in France and Germany than by our own countrymen.
Portion of letter from W. T. Thistleton-Dyer to R. L. Antrobus, Colonial Office, 8 December 1905; quoted from Thistleton-Dyer, Botanical survey of the Empire, in Bull. Misc. Inform. (Kew) 1905: 33 (1906).[Even with the present state of knowledge] … there is already a strong tendency [to experimental research], perhaps regrettable, because those engaged in it prefer the laboratory to the field.
E. B. Worthington, Science in the development of Africa, p. 157 (1958).The Flora of Tropical Africa and its twentieth century successors … are valuable tools for the developing nations and are therefore being supported by them. It is encouraging to see the publication of national floras by these independent countries, involving indigenous taxonomic research.
F. N. Hepper in I. Hedberg (ed.), Systematic botany, plant utilization and biosphere conservation, p. 43 (1979).…The Cape has a Mediterranean climate of winter rains, in which the Bantu summer rain crops do not grow. By 1652, the year the Dutch arrived at Cape Town with their winter rain crops of Near Eastern origin, the Xhosa had still not spread beyond the Fish River.
J. Diamond, Guns, germs and steel, p. 397 (1997).- Type
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- Guide to Standard Floras of the WorldAn Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas, pp. 434 - 516Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001