Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

Cooper, F. G, Munsell manual of color. Defining and explaining the
fundamental characteristics of color. 35 PP» Published by Munsell
Color Company, Inc., Baltimore, Md. Oct. 26, 1938.
This set of student charts contains twenty hues. The colors
regularly come in separate small envelopes, one for each chart, and
have been pasted on blank charts . The notation is explained in
the Manual.
This booklet contains all of the kOO regular colors of the Munsell
system. Several series of special colors that do not appear in this
book are also available from the Munsell Color Company. To protect
the color chips, each chart is covered with thin cellophane. While
this changes the appearance slightly, it does not impair the usefulness
of the book for library references. If color charts are to be
used regularly in matching particular products, the necessary charts
may be purchased 'Ji+her separately or in sets.
Corner, E.J.H. Notes on the systematy and distribution of Malayan
phanerogams, IV: Ixora. Card. Bull. Straits Settlement. 11: 177-235.
A systematic treatment of Ixora with a key; cites specimens from
Thailand.
__ Wayside Trees of Malaya, Vol. I. 772 pp. 259 text figs. Govt.
Printing Office, Singapore. (2nd Ed.) 1952.
This large reference contains descriptions of about 950 species
of trees growing in gardens, orchards, rice-fields, waste ground,
along seashores, riverbanks, roadsides and in secondary growth both
in the lowlands and in the mountains.
Of approximately 8,000 species of flowering plants in Malay, at
least 2,500 are trees growing in the forest at H ratio of 100 genera
to the acre. To describe so many accurately is impossible except in
hard scientific terms. The author has therefore limited the subject
to trees commonly found outside the high forest. Forest trees have
been omitted on principle because they are so numerous and cannot be
classified without recourse to their detailed botanical structure.
The greater part of the book deals with flowering plants. Palms,
cycads, bamboo, pandans and tree-ferns have been omitted.
The introductory part outlines the method of arrangement and
selection of Malay names; method of giving specific descriptions;
how to identify a tree; a key to some common flowering trees; terms
used; general remarks about trees; and a succint treatise on Malayan
vegetation.
The remarks accompanying the descriptions have been limited to the
biological aspect of trees, and only a passing reference is made to
their history, cultivation and economic uses, because these have been
exhaustively compiled by Burkill.
Drawings are also included of many characteristic fruits. Fallen
fruits often supply the only ready means of identifying large trees,
such as oaks, chestnuts, dipterocarps, figs, mangosteens, nutmegs,
and others.