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SWAZILAND
SWAZILAND
by J. F. HARRISON, MARTIN BRUNT AND A. BLAIR RAINS
1929 "VEGETATION MAP OF SWAZILAND"
in color 1:560,340
LEGEND
1. High veld grassland 3. Low veld Acacia parkland
2. Middle veld tall grassland
POLE-EVANS, I. B.
193 2 Report no. 3: Swaziland. Pretonia, Department o£ Agriculture,
Union of South Africa, at back.
1961 "VELD TYPES OE SWAZILAND"
black and white 1:1,521,000
LEGEND
1. Zululand thorn veld 4. N. E. mountain sour veld
2. Low veld 5. Low veld sour bush veld
3. Arid land veld 6. Piet Retief sour veld
HUNTING TECHNICAL SERVICES, LTD.
19 61 Swaziland irrigation scheme, report on soil survey and land
classification. London, Colonial Development Corporation, p. 6.
1962 "SWAZILAND VEGETATION"
black and white 1:500,000
LEGEND
1. Mountain sourveld. Climax high forest of Rapanea-Xymalos—Podocarpus
survives in sheltered ravines: mainly short grassland of Themeda—Rendlia
Eragrostis
2. Highland sourveld. Climax probably forest now found only as remnants—
Pittosporum—Cephalanthus—Faurea: principal grasses Themeda—Andropogon—Tristachya
3. Upland tall grassveld. Open veld with main grass genera Tristachya—Tachypogon—Them
eda—Eragrostis
4. Middleveld tall grassveld. Climax savanna or woodland, scattered Syzigium
—Ficus—Acacia: usually open veld of Hyparrhenia—Eragrostis—Loudetia
5. Mixed bushveld. Dense Acacia thornveld alternates with open bush-clump
vegetation, including Ficus—Combretum: herbage often Themeda—Panicum
6. Lowveld deciduous bush. Tall grasses. Hyparrhenia—Aristida Perotis beneath
Combretum—Sclerocarya—Zizphus—Dichrostachya and on sands
Terminalia—Pterocarpus
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