Flora of Tropical Africa

Abstract

THE third volume of Oliver's “Flora of Tropical Africa”includes fourteen natural orders, mostly belonging to the sub-class Gamopetake of the Dicotyledons. The two orders, Umbelliferæ and Araliaceæ, both by Mr. W. P. Hiern, and occupying the first thirty-two pages, were printed in 1871 along with vol. ii., the rest being all new. The district included in the present volume is of course the same as that mentioned in the previous ones, extending on each side of the equator for somewhere about fifteen degrees. It is divided into six regions, two on the west side of the continent, distinguished as Upper and Lower Guinea, two on the east side; Nile Land and Mozambique and the intervening region divided into the north and south-central. The district is therefore one of vast extent, and will probably yield many new forms when further exploration renders our knowledge of the country and of its productions more complete than it is at present.

Flora of Tropical Africa.

By Daniel Oliver, Keeper of the Herbarium and Library in the Royal Gardens, Kew, and Professor of Botany in University College, London. Assisted by other botanists. Vol. iii. Umbelliferæ to Ebenaceæ. Published under the Authority of the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works. (London: L. Reeve and Co., 1877.)