Contributions to Botany.Studies in Plant Geography, Phylogeny and Evolution,Ethnobotany and Dendrological and Horticultural Botany.1982.Illustrated.528 p.8vo.Cloth.-In English.

This is a volume publishing mainly contributions on Asian botany by the author, which originally have been published in a wide variety of journals.Contents(partly): Foreword/ Hui-Lin Li,A Biographical Sketch/ Author's Bibliography/ Part I.Plant Geography (The phytogeographic divisions of China, with special reference to the Araliaceae/ A revisionof the genus Pedicularis in China.Introduction:Geographical distribution/ Floristic significance and problems of eastern Asia/ Geographical distribution of the Melastomataceae in eastern Asia/ Vicariism in the geography of Scrophulariaceae in China/ Floristic relationships betweeneastern Asia and eastern North America/ Etc.)/ Part II. Plant Phylogeny and Evolution (Evolution in the flowers of Pedicularis/ A reclassification of Libocedrus and Cupressaceae/ Classification and phylogeny of Nymphaeaceae and allied families/ The evolutionary significance of the endosperm and its bearing on the origin of angiosperms/ Adaptive radiation in the flowering plants/ A theory on the ancestry of angiosperms/ Etc.)/ Part III. Ethnobotany and Origin of Cultivated Plants (The cultivation of trees by mankind/ Mu-lan-p'i: A case for pre-Columbian transatlantic travel by Arab ships/ The vegetables of ancient China/ The origin of cultivated plants in southeast Asia/ Plant taxonomy and the origin of cultivated plants/ Theorigin and use of Cannabis in eastern Asia: Linguistic and cultural implications/ Etc.)/ Part IV. Dendrological and Horticultural Botany(Luigi Castiglione as a poineer in plant geography and plant introduction/ Cercidiphyllum/ A horticultural and botanical history on Ginkgo/ The story of the cultivated horse-chestnuts/ The origin and history of the cultivated plane-trees/The weeping willow and the Lombardy poplar/Etc.).