Important Grassland Plants of Kenya

Description

This book demonstrates the important progress which has been made in Kenya with regard to the knowledge of the country's indigenous grassland plants since 1933 when D. C. Edwards wrote his preliminary bulletin on the subject. With the increasing realization of the part grassland has to play in the tropics, and with the search now being made to find the best indigenous grassland plants, it is good to see that Kenya has made such notable advances. Excellent definitions of the major ecological zones of the country and a discussion of the grazing problems of each are condensed into the first fifteen pages. This is well done. Here the necessity for different techniques with which to attack the problem and the need for different grasses for each of the very diverse zones are made so clear that one wishes this section could have been expanded in greater detail. The main part of the book, 100 from a total of