The Vegetation of the Districts of East London and King William's Town, Cape Province

(Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Technical Services, 1962). Botanical Survey Memoir No. 33. 242 x 155 mm; side-stitched card wrappers; pp. (iv) + 32; plates; large, folding colour map in end-pocket. Slight creasing; short, closed tear to top edge of lower cover. Very good condition. "Owing to the dissected terrain and the wide range in altitude within a relatively short distance from the coast to the mountains, the vegetation exhibits a correspondingly wide variation in form and complexity of distribution pattern. The vegetation is composed of two plant formations, namely Woodland and Grassland. Woodland is the dominant component and has replaced Grassland in many localities. Grassland occurs in exposed situations mainly in the midlands. These two plant formations are themselves composed of two floral elements, namely, an eastern component of tropical affinity and an austral component related to the flora of the south-west Cape. The flora is mainly of tropical affinity; the austral component is, by comparison, limited in extent and distribution." .