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THE present part completes the third volume (dealing with the c'alycifloral section of Dicotyledons) of the detailed description of the minute structure of the wood of the tree species occurring in Java. It comprises the families Rhizophoreæ, Combretaceæ, Myrtaceæ, Melastomaceæ, Lythrarieæ, Samydaceæ, Datisceæ, Araliaceæ, and Cornaceæ, and includes the description of 124 species and varieties. At the beginning of the account of each family are given a list of the literature, an enumeration of the material examined, and a summarised description of the general characters of the anatomy of the wood and its constituent elements. Then follow, first, a discussion of the bearing- of the results of the investigation on the systematic grouping of the genera and species within the family; secondly, a table in the form of a key for the determination of the species by means of characters afforded by their wood-structure; and thirdly, a detailed description of the characters in each species, with a block illustration of the first species described for each genus. The authors have brought together much detailed information on the minute structure of the wood of the species examined, and the work w.hen completed will form a valuable contribution to the systematic study of genera and species from a point of view which hitherto has been insufficiently recognised.
Mikrographie des Holzes der auf Java, vorkommenden Baumarten, im Auftrage des Kolonial-Ministeriums.
Unter Leitung von Prof. J. W. Moll., bearbeitet von Dr. H. H. Janssonius. Fünfte Lieferung. Pp. 337–764. (Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1918.)
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Mikrographie des Holzes der auf Java, vorkommenden Baumarten, im Auftrage des Kolonial-Ministeriums . Nature 103, 303 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103303b0
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