Book ID: 8859
Richard,Achille
Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae seu Enumeration Plantarum hucusque in perisque Abyssiniae Provinciis Detectarum et Praecipue a Beatis Doctoribus Richard, Quartin Dillon et Antonio Petit (Annis 1838-1843) Lectarum. 2 vols. 1847-1851. XI,990 p. gr8vo. Paper bd. Reprint with a new preface by W.T. Stearn.
From the preface: Achille Richard's Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae wasthe first comprehensive work on the plants of Ethiopia,it recordedevery species then known from the country, about 1700 out of the about6.400 now known. It remains important on account of the numerous speciesnew to science here first named and described.