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(1) THE volume by Dr. Bews, who is professor of botany intheNatal University College, Pietermaritzburg, was written mainly for the purpose of assisting students of plant ecology and those engaged in botanical survey work in Natal. The flora of that country received for many years the devoted attention of the late Dr. J. Medley Wood, who published among several other works a “Handbook to the Flora of Natal” in 1907, and a “Revised List of the Flora of Natal” in 1908, to the latter of which two supplements were issued. The Handbook is now out of print, and the Revised List is not easy to procure, while both are incomplete. Dr. Bews's work, therefore, supplies a need and will be welcomed. It contains 478 species of flowering plants that are not included in Wood's Revised List. Like Wood's Handbook it gives keys to the families and genera, short descriptions of the former, and enumerations of the species, with a few words on their distribution and here and there a native name; the Cryptogams are excluded entirely.
(1) An Introduction to the Flora of Natal and Zululand.
By Prof. J. W. Bews. Pp. vi + 248. (Pietermaritzburg: City Printing Works; London: Wheldon and Wesley, Ltd., 1921.) 15s.
(2) The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops.
By Prof. P. F. Fyson. Vol. 3. Pp. xviii + 581. (Madras: Government Press, 1920.) 15 rupees 6 annas.
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(1) An Introduction to the Flora of Natal and Zululand (2) The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops. Nature 109, 510–511 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109510a0
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