Diversity and Taxonomy of Tropical Flowering Plants: Prof. K.S. Manilal Commemoration Volume/Philip Mathew and M. Sivadasan. 1998, xii, 330 p., illustrated, maps, $99.
Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Climatic accommodation and phytogeography of the Gesneriaceae of the old world/B.L. Burtt, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK. 2. Endemic aquatic and wetland vascular plants in the subcontinent of India south of the Himalayas/Christopher D.K. Cook, Institut fur Systematische Botanik der Universitat Zurich, Switzerland. 3. The tropical vegetation and floristic diversity of the Arabian peninsula/Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. 4. Endemism in the family Euphorbiaceae of India/N.P. Balakrishnan, Botanical Survey of India, India. 5. Wild plants as genetic resources for crop improvement/L.J.G. van der Maesen, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. 6. Advances in Compositae systematics/Bertil Nordenstam, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden. 7. Indian Sapindaceae: interesting topic for research?/P.C. van Welzen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 8. A synopsis of the neotropical species of Triumfetta (Tiliaceae)/Paul A. Fryxell, University of Texas, USA. 9. Plants named for George Forster and/or his father, Johann Reinhold Forster/Dan H. Nicolson, National Museum of Natural History, USA. 10. Parallel and convergent evolution in the convolvulaceae/Daniel F. Austin, Florida Atlantic University, USA. 11. Tropical aroids: taxonomy, diversity and ecology/Thomas B. Croat, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA. 12. The discovery of new plant taxa in Central French Guiana/Scott A. Mori and Carol A. Gracie, The New York Botanical Garden, USA. 13. Chromosome numbers of cultivated Acanthaceae and systematic implications/Thomas F. Daniel, California Academy of Sciences and Tsan Iang Chuang, Illinois State University, USA.
[Philip Mathew, Professor of Botany, University of Calicut was formerly the Co-editor of Rheedea and is presently the Treasurer of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT).
M. Sivadasan is Professor of Botany in the University of Calicut. His special interest is in Araceae. He was the Founder Treasurer of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT) and presently the Executive Editor of Rheedea, the official journal of IAAT. He was a fellow of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA.]