Medicinal Plants of China. 2 vols. 1985. illustr. 705 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Second hand copy. Good condition. -The world's leading botanists have co-operated to produce a fundamental work - Medicinal Plants of China - which represents a keystone in the current assessment of the world's medicinal plant resources being undertaken by Reference Publications in its series "Medicinal Plants of the World". Covering more than 1000 species of Chinese medicinal plants,and generously illustrated with line-drawings, this thorough work makes available to Western researchers the secrets of Chinese medicinal plantlore. This new scientific book, which will be widely acclaimed, isc omplete with a medical index, scientific name index, and botanical index, as well as a bibliography. It represents a key which will open the treasure house of knowledge of Chinese medicinal plants to our scrutiny.