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MR. GREENWAY has performed a very valuable service to all interested in the life of the East African native by the preparation of this dictionary. Hitherto the available information was scattered through larger dictionaries or recorded only in botanical papers or on herbarium sheets. Now the accurate identification of the native names of medicinal, food and other plants will be greatly simplified.
A Swahili Dictionary of Plant Names
By P. J. Greenway. Pp. xvi + 112. (Dar es Salaam: Government Printer, 1937.) 3s.
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A Swahili Dictionary of Plant Names. Nature 142, 498 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142498d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142498d0