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Blotter, E & Millard, Walter S : Some Beautiful Indian Trees

Calcutta: Bombay Natural History Society / Oxford University Press 1997 (3rd reprint of 1954 2nd ed.)

Hardback, second edition third reprint, very good condition, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, publisher's originalillustrated (as d/j) boards, 165 pages including index, 32 colour plates and 47 b/w photo illustrations-------Contents: The Splendid Amherstia (Amherstia nobilis); The Variegated Bauhinia (Bauhinia variegata); The Purple Bauhinia (Bauhinia purpurea); The Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma); The Climbing Palas (Butea superba); The Indian Laburnum (Cassia fistula); The Java Cassia (Cassia javanica); The Red Cassia (Cassia roxburghii); The Horse Cassia (Cassia grandos); The Burmese Pink Cassia (Cassia renigera); The Yellow Silk-Cotton Tree (Cochlospermum religiosum); The ColvilleÆs Glory (Colvillea racemosa); The Scarlet Cordia or Aloe-Wood (Cordia sebestena); The Sacret Barna (Crataeva nurvala); The Gul Mohur of Flamboyant (Delonix regia, syn, Poinciana regia); The White Gul Mohut (Delonix elata); The Large Flowered Dillenia (Dillenia indica); The Indian Coral Tree (Erythrina indica); Other species of ErythrinaThe Colored Sterculia (Firmiana Colorata); The Brilliant Gardenia (Gardenia resinifera); The Spotted Gliricidia (Gliricidia sepium); The Lingnum Vitae Tree (Guaiacum Officinale); The Mimosa-Leaved Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia); The Kleinhovia (Kleinhovia hospita); The RoxburghÆs Kydia (Kydia calycina); The Queen of Flowers (Lagerstroemia speciosa); The Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica); The Indian Cork Tree (Millingtonia hortensis); The Copper-Pod (Peltophorum roxburghii)The Pagoda Tree (Plumeria rubra f. acutifolia); The Frangipani (Plumeria rubra f. rubra); The White Frangipani (Plumeria alba); The Padauk (Pterocarpus indicus); The Silk Cotton Tree (Salmalia malabarica, syn. Bombax malabaricum); Other species of Salmalia; The Asoka Tree (Saraca indica); The Large-Flowered Nightshade of Potato Tree (Salanum grandiflorum); The Scarlet-Bell of Fountain Tree (Spathodea campanulata)[ The Wavy-Leaved Tecomella (Tecomella undulata)The Bhendi Tree (The Spesia Populnea); Appendices - Descriptions of Families Represented; Key to the Genera; Changes in Nomenclature; Glossary of some Botanical Terms; Some Sources of Further Information; General Index

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