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PART 2 of this work comprises 44 families from Sterculiaceæ to Umbelliferæ in the phylogenetic order devised by Mr. J. Hutchinson, one of its authors. Several families of great importance from the botanical as well as the economic point of view are included, such as the Malvaceæ, Euphorbiaceæ, Leguminosæ (here divided into three families), Meliaceæ, Anacardiaceæ, and Umbelliferæ. The one represented by the most abundant species is of course the Papilionaceæ, which occupies just one-fifth of the whole part (the ‘Leguminosæ’ take up three-eighths). Next in order come the Euphorbiaceæ with one-seventh. There are sixty-nine excellent full-page and text illustrations, drawn by W. E. Trevithick, which materially assist in the determination of the plants represented and in the understanding of the chief characteristics of the families to which they belong.
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.
J.
Hutchinson
Dr.
J. M.
Dalziel
By. Prepared at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, under the Supervision of the Director. Published under the Authority of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Vol. 1, Part 2. Pp. iii + 247–523. (London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1928.) 8s. 6d.
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FISCHER, C. 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 . Nature 124, 573 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124573a0
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