Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

is one of a series describing the natural history and peoples of
the Pacific Ocean and of its innumer-ible islands, large and small.
Although more than 50,000 different species, representing 2,500
genera, of higher plants are now known in the Pacific area, the
author believes that many thousands still await discovery and study.
Many regions are characterized by strictly limited and relatively
few types of plant life, such as the small low islands in the
Pacific Ocean, and those in the extreme north. Others, such as the
larger islands in Melanesia, Papuasia and Malaysia, support an extraordinarily
rich plant life. While many parts of the area have
been extensively and intensively explored from a botanical standpoint,
few have been covered by exhaustive descriptive manuals or
even by published lists of the known species.
Subjects discussed in the respective chapters are: the safe
forest and jungle of the tropics; general principles of botanical
classification; plants of the seashore; mangrove forest; secondary
forests and open grasslands; primary forest; noteworthy plants of
special interest; weeds and their significance; cultivated plants;
jungle foods; problems of Malaysian plant distribution; problems
of Polynesian plant -.tistribution; the significance of certain local
plant names; data on specific islands and island groups: and notes
on botanical history, exploration and bibliography.
., and E. H. Walker. A bibliography of eastern Asiatic botany,
i, 719 pp. 2 maps. Published by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass. 193&-
A comprehensive work including the principal references on Siam,
Indo-China, Burma and India.
Meslier, A. Les Forets du Tonkin. .3cric Hanoi. No. 13. Congres
D'Agriculture Coloniale. Gouvernement Ge'ne'ral do 1'Indocnine.
Hanoi-Haiphong. 19lB»
Metcalfe, C. R. The structure and botanical identity of some scented
woods from the East. Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 193j (l): 3-15. pi.
1-U. 1933.
Includes some species native to Thailand.
Meyer, A. Ueber einige Zusamnenhaen -