Book ID: 3025
DRAKE DE CASTILLO, Emmanuel
Illustrationes Florae Insularum Maris Pacifici. Paris 1886-1892. (Reprint 1977). 50 plates. 458 p. 4to. Cloth. (ISBN 978-3-7682-1130-7)
Publ. in Historia Natur. Classica, vol. 102. - The introduction summarizes the physiography, plant distribution, general features offlora, principal botanical explorations. Pages 103 to end contain asystematic list of vascular plants of Polynesia (2189 species), withsynonymy, localities, collectors, and general range. The area coveredincludes Viti (Fiji), Tonga, Samoa, Society, Paumoto (Tuamoto),Marquesas, and the Hawaiian Islands. The plates illustrate characteristic species of various families.