A Flora of Manila (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Flora of Manila (Classic Reprint) written by E. D. Merrill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Flora of Manila There are definitely known from the Philippines at the present time about species of flowering plants and vascular cryptogams, distributed into about genera, in 200 families. Many of the species are of very local occurrence, while others are confined to medium and higher altitudes in the mountains, and are hence never seen by the average resident of the Archipelago. The flora of the coastal region, especially of the populated areas, is remarkably uniform, practically the same forms being found in and about such towns as Zamboanga, Cebu, Iloilo, Aparri, etc., as are found about Manila, so that for all practical purposes a flora of the vicinity of Manila is also a nearly complete flora for most inhabited regions at low altitudes in all parts of the Archipelago. Accordingly while most of the plants encountered in the settled areas at low altitudes will be found to be described in the present work, it will be found to be of little value for the determination of specimens collected in the forests and on the mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.