# The useful trees of northern Nigeria Author: Lely, Hugh Vandervaes, 1891-1947 Genre: Category: Science - Biology Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72006 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+useful+trees+of+northern+Nigeria+Lely&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The text and plates of this volume have been prepared with the primary object of identification of the trees of the savannah forests of Northern Nigeria. The volume is, in no sense, a Flora, and no attempt has been made to include all the species found in the region under survey. Trees, being distributed over a large number of Families of the plant kingdom, are a small proportion of the total number of flowering plants, and their systematic arrangement would not, except in a few cases, be an aid to identification. Some 30 Families are represented by the 120 species included, in one of which there are as many as 36 species. The botanical names are arranged, therefore, in their alphabetical... ## Chapters - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-useful-trees-of-northern-nigeria-72006/chapters/15/index.md)