Botanical Studies of the Lesser Antilles: Dicotyledoneae

最后一年的奖金将用于支持哈佛大学的理查德·霍华德博士及其同事完成小安的列斯群岛开花植物目录的第五卷和第六卷。西印度群岛的植物区，特别是小安的列斯群岛，是18世纪欧洲探险家最先到达的地区之一。该地区现有的植物区系或植物名录以荷兰、丹麦、英国和法国的群岛为中心。目前的植物区系将包括所有的植物记录，包括栽培植物的记录，并代表了该地区第一个全面的植物资源清单。欧洲的档案研究揭示了许多外来植物的来源和引进日期，但不一定是人工栽培的。《小安的列斯群岛植物志》包括植物科、属和种的描述，并附有实际使用的识别钥匙；古代文献中科学名称的同义数据分类专著的参考文献；分类群的地理分布；生态数据;还有常见的名字。包括有关稀有或濒危植物状况的数据。每个属都附有一个代表性物种的原始艺术作品，以前没有在科学文献中说明过。

A final year's award will support Dr. Richard Howard of Harvard University and his colleagues in completing the fifth and sixth volumes of the flowering plants inventory of the Lesser Antilles. The floristic area of the West Indies, especially the islands of the Lesser Antilles was one of the first visited by 18th century European explorers. Existing floras or plant-lists for the area are nationally oriented for the Dutch, Danish, British, and French island groups. The present flora will incorporate all botanical records, including those of cultivated plants, and represents the first comprehensive inventory of the botanical resources of the area. Archival studies in Europe have revealed the sources and dates of introduction of many of the exotic, but not necessarily cultivated, species of the flora. The Flora of the Lesser Antilles includes descriptions of plant families, genera, and species, with identification keys for practical use; data on synonymy of scientific names in the old literature; references to taxonomic monographs; general distributions of taxa geographically; ecological data; and common names. Data on the status of rare or endangered plants are included. Each genus is illustrated with original art work of a representative species not previously illustrated in the scientific literature.