Abstract
THE demand for Mr. Greenway's modest little “Dictionary of Swahili-Botanical-English Plant Names”, having been greater than was expected, has caused the author to prepare a second edition which is nearly three times as thick (Pp. 308 + 10 plates. Dar es Salaam: Government Printer, 1940. 4s.). The format is the same, but there have now been added a separate list of botanical and common English names, a large number of Swahili names, and ten pages of diagrams to illustrate the short glossary of botanical terms. We have noted a few trifling misprints: “Afromomum’ for “Aframomum”, ‘tripinnate’ for “bipinnate’ (diagram), and ‘capitula’ for ‘capitulum’, the drawing for which might equally well serve as a model for an improved garden rake. The printing is excellent, and the author is to be congratulated on providing this enlarged edition of a very useful little book for those in East Africa with little knowledge of botany.
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Swahili Plant Names. Nature 147, 354 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147354c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147354c0