Scientific Publications

Economic Botany

The Baobab – Africa’s Upside-Down Tree

G. E. Wickens

Reprint from Kew Bulletin 37(2),1982

38pp, 10 photographs and 5 line drawings
245 x 155mm. Soft bound
no ISBN
£3.90

Economic Botany Data Collection Standard

Frances E.M. Cook

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1995

Interest in the uses of plants has increased rapidly recently, with different groups using different standards both when collecting and compiling databases. The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG) recognised the need for a standard that will ensure consistent recording of data – this book does just that. It provides a standard for that all database compilers and collectors of information on useful plants can apply.

x + 146pp. 297 x 210mm. Soft cover
ISBN 0 947643 71 0
£15.00

Edible Wild Plants of Subsaharan Africa

C. R. Peters, E. M. O’Brien and R. B. Drummond

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1992

Covers all major plant groupings – ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms – alphabetically by genus and species, and the parts of the plants that may be, or are edible.

240pp. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 0 947643 51 6
£15.00

The Genus Inga – Utilization

See Systematic Works: Leguminosae.

Ethnobotany of the Waimiri Atroari Indians of Brazil

W. Milliken, R. P. Miller, S. R. Pollard and E. V. Wandelli

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1992

ix + 146pp, four colour plates + other illustrations. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 0 947643 50 8
£15.00

Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever

Medicinal species in Latin America – a bibliographic survey

W. Milliken

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1997

Listing of plants occurring in northern Latin America used in malaria and fever treatment. Additional information includes region where plant is used, plant parts used, screening results for malaria treatment, habitat and chemical constituents.

vi + 116pp. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 1 900347 33 4
£25.00

Poisonous Plants and Fungi in Britain and Ireland, 2nd Edition: CD-ROM

See page 5

Taxonomic Aspects of African Economic Botany

Ed. G. Kunkel

Las Palmas: (Bentham-Moxon Trust), 1979

Proceedings of the IX plenary meeting of AETFAT.

250pp, with maps and illustrations. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 84 500 3340 3
£11.00

The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

H. M. Burkill

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens

A five-part revision of J.M. Dalziel’s original published in 1937, which supplements the second edition of the Flora of West Tropical Africa (see p00). Each plant is briefly described with its geographical range, habitat and known economic attributes. Volume 5 will be published in 2000.

Vol.1 (Families A – D) 1985
xvi + 960pp. 250 x 155mm. Hard cover + dust cover
ISBN 0 947643 01 X
£70.00

Vol.2 (Families E – I) 1994
xii + 636pp. 250 x 155mm. Hard cover + dust cover
ISBN 0 947643 56 7
£50.00

Vol.3 (Families J – L) 1995
This includes the economically important family Leguminosae.
xii + 857pp. 250 x 155mm. Hard cover + dust cover
ISBN 0 947643 64 8
£60.00

Vol.4 (Families E – I) 1994
xii + 969pp. 250 x 155mm. Hard cover + dust cover
ISBN 0 900347 13 X
£70.00 Special Price for the four volumes purchased as a set: £200

Medicinal Plants of Limbe Botanic Garden

Ed. Sylvia Howe

Mount Cameroon Project – no publication

Detailed information on the medicinal and economic value of 30 plants grown in the Mt Cameroon region. Each plant is illustrated and fully described with information on habitat, conservation, pharmaceutical and non-medicinal uses in various parts of Africa.

80pp. 210 x 148mm. Soft cover
no ISBN
£9.00