Medicinal Plants of Brazil (MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE WORLD)

Foreword: Some Historical and Modern Facts of the Brazalian Medicinal Plant Heritage; Introduction; Bibliography; Medicianl Plants of Brazil: A-Z; notes and synonyms, glossary, editor's acknowledgments, illustration credits, indices: medicinal, common names, species with b&w illustrations throughout. Edited by Robert A. Defilipps. Medicinal Plants of the World series, No. 6: First Edition, 2000. Green cloth with gilt letttering to spine. ``This book is a synthesis of our knowledge of the medicinal and gical utilization of approximately 1,500 species and varieties of plants, occuring in 148 families of lichens, ferns, fern allies, gymnosperms and flowering plants. They represent the dicerse vegrational heritage of the richly endowed tropical nation of Brazil, including a wide selection of plants from such habitats as the semiarid woodlands of the Northeast, the vast Amazonian rain forest populated by Amerndian tribes and agricultural settlers, and the savannas of the Mato Grosso." from the jacket flap.