1944 Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of S. Tome

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

With three maps and twenty six figures. Arthur Wallis Exell was initially an assistant and later Deputy Keeper of Botany at the British Museum during the years 1924–1939 and 1950–1962. A noted cryptographer, taxonomist and phytogeographer, he was notable for his furthering of botanical exploration in tropical and sub-tropical Africa, and was an authority on the family Combretaceae.