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KENYA
1960 "DETAILED DIANI BEACH KWALE TRANSECT, KENYA"
black and white 1:35,640
LEGEND
1. Manil\ara—Diospyros, lowland dry forest
2. Cynometra—M anillara, lowland dry forest
3. Mañanara—Dalbergia/Hyparrhenia, lowland cultivation, savanna
4. Brachystegia—Afzelia, lowland woodland
5. Combretum schumanii—Cassipourea, lowland dry forest on coral rag
6. Sterculia—Chlorophora/Memecylon, lowland rain forest
7. Afzelia—Albizzia/Panicum, lowland moist savanna
MOONMAW, J. C.
1960 A study of the Plant Ecology of the Coast Region of Kenya
Colony. Kenya Department of Agriculture and East African Agriculture
and Forestry Research Organisation co-operating with U.S. Educational
Commission in the U. K. Directorate of Overseas Surveys.
D.O.S. (Misc.) 269B., in pocket.
1962 "SOIL MAP OF NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK"
black and white 1:100,000
LEGEND
1. Black to dark grey clays "Black Cotton Soil." Grassland with varying
amounts of Acacia drepenolobium in drier areas
2. Dark vlei soils with grass and sedge cover; very few or no trees
3. Alluvium, riverine trees and bushland
4. Dark greyish-brown calcaverous clays. Themeda-Pennisetum grassland with
scattered Acacia pellifera and Balanites
5. Reddish-brown sandy clay loams. Themeda-Pennisetum
6. Shallow yellow-brown or reddish clays overlying rock or latérite with bushland,
grassland with scattered trees, or thick woody cover
7. Red friable clays with forest
8. Shallow stony soils with rock outcrops usually with thicket, Acacia groves
or other woody cover
VERDCOUNT, B. and E. J. BROWN
19 62 in Herie-Smith, S., The wild flowers of the Nairobi Royal
National Par\. Nairobi.
1963 "VEGETATION (KENYA) "
black and white
1:6,150,000
LEGEND
1. Highland grassland and highland forest
2. Coastal forest
3. Coastal grass-bush
4. Grouped tree grassland (including low tree-high grass)
5. Scattered tree-grassland and open grassland
6. Desert grass-bush (dry bush with trees)
7. Desert scrub (and lava ridges, desert grass shrub, and true desert)
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