Wayside trees of Malaya in two volumes.

Abstract

A third revised edition of this classic work first published in 1940 and 1952. The trees included are from gardens, roadsides, orchards, rice fields, waste land, seashores, riverbanks and secondary forest, in the lowlands and the mountains of Malesia. Forest trees have been omitted unless mentioned to indicate their relationships with those of gardens or orchards. The descriptive section includes mangroves. Most of the work deals with angiosperms, but there is a small section on conifers; palms, cycads, bamboos, pandans and tree ferns are omitted. The first part (Part I, pp. 1-59) of the first volume is a general botanical introduction including sections on: keys; terms; tree shapes; 'pagoda-trees' and 'Terminalia-branching'; ant-trees; buttresses; flowering and leafing; Malayan vegetation; and trees of local interest. Part II (pp. 61-103) presents keys to the identification of families and genera. Part III contains descriptions of families, genera and species in alphabetical order of family - Acanthaceae to Lythraceae (pp. 105-476) in Vol. I and Magnoliaceae to Vitaceae, followed by the Gymnospermae (pp. 477-775) in Vol. II. The descriptions give botanical, English and Malay names, a brief botanical description, and a general discussion (including distribution). The rest of Part III contains an appendix 'Guide to the tree-models at Hallé and Oldeman with respect to Malayan trees', references, and unpaginated plates. Part IV (pp. 787-861) contains indexes to English, Malay and botanical names, botanical and descriptive terms, and plates.