An extensive study of herbarium specimens and literature of arborescent multiseed Junipers (Juniperus L. sect. Sabina (Mill.) Spach) from SW Asia and E Africa, in preparation of a monographic volume “Drawings and Descriptions of Cupressaceae”, has led to a substantially revised concept of taxa and their distribution. A total of 18 species and 7 varieties were previously recognized in this group; most turned out to be synonyms. J. foetidissima var. pindicola Formanek, J. macropoda Boiss., J. procera Hochst. ex Endl., J. sabinoides Griseb., J. schugnanica Komarov and J. semiglobosa Regel were lectotypified; J. polycarpos K. Koch has been neotypified. The following taxa answering to the above circumscription are here recognized for the area: J. excelsa M.-Bieb., J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos (K. Koch) Takhtajan, J. foetidissima Willd., J. semiglobosa Regel, J. phoenicea L. and J. procera Hochst. ex Endl.

This attractive species was first found by Sheila Collenette in January 1961 on an Expedition to Gunong Trus Madi, the second highest peak in Sabah, on the crest of the main ridge near the summit between 2135–2285m. The original plant was described as a tree with a substantial trunk over 7m in height, and quite a spectacular sight covered in fully open bright orange flowers. Herbarium collections of this plant were sent to Professor Sleumer in Leiden who described the material as a new species of Rhododendron in series Javanica, No 208a (Sleumer, 1963). In his revision of the genus Rhododendron in Malaysia (Sleumer, 1960) he inserted this between Rhododendron englerianum Koord from New Guinea and R. rhodopus Sleumer from Sulawesi. This appears to be a very precise position but no reasons were given for this placement and there is no reason to suppose this species has a very close relationship with either of those between which it had been interposed. It might have been better placed with R. rugosum Low. ex Hook. f. with which it does have scale type and geographical location in common.

Forty-two species of Geranium from Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, W Hubei and adjacent territories are keyed and described. Four new species are published: G. canopurpureum Yeo, G. duclouxii Yeo, G. fargesii Yeo and G. retectun Yeo. One previously described species is reduced to varietal rank (as G. hupehanum var. wilsonii (Knuth) Yeo) and many others are reduced to synonymy. The name G. platyanthum Duthie is taken up for G. eriostemon Fischer ex DC, which is a later homonym of G. eriostemum Poiret. A catalogue of collectors' numbers is supplied.

A new variety of Agalmyla tuberculala Hook. f. is described; it extends the range of the species from Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, to Mt Murud, N Sarawak. Five new species and four new varieties of Cyrtandra are described from Mt Kinabalu; there are also two new species of Cyrtandra from Sarawak.

The keys to the genera of Gesneriaceae, and to the species within each genus, prepared for Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae are here presented in English translation. The keys are prefaced by a discussion on the phytogeography of Gesneriaceae within China and a note on the recognition of the evolutionary tendencies that underlie the revision; both are by Wang Wentsai. The keys have been translated by Professor Wang and edited, with a few supplementary notes and references, by B. L. Burtt, who also contributes an Introduction.

Comparative morphological and carpological investigation shows that Ladyginia and Spongiosyndesmus are congeneric. An emended generic description of Ladyginia is given and two new nomenclatural combinations Ladyginia afghanica and L. gigantea are made.

An account of Streptocarpus was written for inclusion in Flora of Southern Africa; now that that publication has been suspended, two new names are validated here. The plants were discussed under S. rimicola in Hilliard & Burtt, Streptocarpus. An African plant study, 240–241 (1971).

Manulea derustiana is newly described, and a ditypic genus, Reyemia, is described with a new species, R. chasmanthiflora, as its type, and Zaluzianskya nemesioides is transferred to it.

Ormosolenia Tausch is shown to be a separate monotypic genus of the Umbelliferae, distinct from Peucedanum L. A new combination, O. alpina (Sieber ex Schultes) M. Pimenov is proposed for the only species of the genus which is endemic to the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

A key is given to distinguish Jamesbrittenia, Camptoloma and Lyperia from Sutera, a genus with which they have hitherto usually been equated. Twenty one species and one subspecies of Jamesbrittenia are newly described, and 63 new combinations are made (two at varietal level).

A historical outline of Dioscorea kamoonensis (Dioscoreaceae – Sect. Lasiophyton) and related taxa is provided. Four species are recognized in the present paper: D. kamoonensis; D. delavayi; D. ochroleuca, nom. el slat. nov. and D. brevifolia, stat. nov. Scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) of pollen and hairs from the four species are also given.

Lectotypes are provided for Sorbus microphylla Wenzig, S. ursina (G.Don) Schauer var. wenzigiana Schneider, S. arachnoidea Koehne and S. rufopilosa Schneider. Var. wenzigiana is transferred to S. foliolosa (Wallich) Spach var. wenzigiana (Schneider) Rushforth., comb. nov. A description of S. microphylla Wenzig. emend, is provided.

An analysis was made of the floristic composition of 26 cerrado areas in Brazil, encompassing most of the latitudinal and much of the longitudinal extension of this vegetation. A total of 485 species of trees and large shrubs occurred in these areas but those present at only one site were eliminated so that the number analysed was reduced to 255. Numerical classification and ordination, followed by an environmental/geographical interpretation of site patterns, were used in the analysis. The analyses revealed three major gradients of variation associated with latitude, longitude and, most strongly, soil-type (mesotrophic or dystrophic). The study demonstrated that cerrado vegetation is extremely heterogeneous: none of the 485 species recorded occurred at all sites and only 27 were present at 15 or more. Further knowledge of this distributional heterogeneity is essential for the planning of representative conservation areas of this extremely endangered vegetation.

Ephedra milleri Freitag & Maier-Stolte (Ephedraceae) from Dhofar (Oman) is described. E. sinaica Riedl, described as an endemic from S Sinai and meanwhile collected from numerous localities in higher altitudes of the western escarpment of Arabia is reduced to a subspecies of E. pachyclada.

Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawler is revised, similar species are critically compared and several of them, notably D. deremensis Engl. and D. deisteliana Engl. are reduced into synonymy. A formal classification with standard specimens for cultivated material currently in commerce is proposed.

Ixora keenanii Deb & Rout (Rubiaceae) is described as a new species from Kachin State, Burma.

This study examines whether a satisfactory classification of Turkish Lathyrus species can be obtained from phenetic clustering based on external vegetative and floral morphological characters of herbarium specimens. Forty morphological characters for each species of the genus Lathyrus L. were scored and the data subjected to numerical taxonomic analyses. The results of this study suggest that there are basically nine sections (Orobus, Lathyrostylis, Aphaca, Nissolia, Orobon, Gorgonia, Clymenum, Cicercula and Lathyrus) which can be grouped under two subgenera, namely subgenus Lathyrus and subgenus Orobus, as far as the material belonging to 54 of the 58 species cited in Flora of Turkey allows. Sect. Gorgonia Dogan is described.

Eighty one species of larger fungi are recorded from Mediterranean Turkey, many of which are noted for the first time either for Turkey as a whole or the southern region. Notes on the distribution, where appropriate, are added especially for the most significant collections. All the major families of agarics are included in addition to some gasteromycetes, members of the Polyporales, and a few ascomycetes.

Fifteen boletes (Basidiomycotina) distributed in the following genera: Afroboletus (1), Aureoboletus (1), Boletellus (1), Gyroporus (2), Phlebopus (1), Phylloporus (1), Pulveroboletus (5), Suillus (1) Tuboseta (1), and Veloporphyrellus (1) are recorded from Zambia. Four of these collections cannot be assigned to any formerly documented stirps. Two new combinations are proposed and full descriptions of the other collections are given. Afroboletus azureotinctus and Veloporphyrellus africanus are described as new; Tuboseta brunneosetosa var. retipes is recorded from Cameroon & Zimbabwe in addition to Zambia.