Flowering Plants of Africa
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine
The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the subsequent name Curtis's Botanical Magazine....
, initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920 and currently published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
. The magazine depicts and describes flowering plants from Africa and its neighbouring islands.
Notable botanical artists who have contributed to its pages include Gillian Condy
Gillian Condy
Gillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist. She has illustrated over 200 plates for , contributed to various other publications and 8 plates for . She has illustrated two books by Charles Craib, Geophytic Pelargoniums and Grass Aloes in the South African Veld...
, Fay Anderson, Auriol Batten, Rosemary Holcroft, Betty Connell, Cythna Letty
Cythna Letty
Cythna Lindenberg Letty , was a South African botanical artist and is regarded as a doyenne of South African botanical art by virtue of the quality and quantity of her meticulously executed paintings and pencil sketches, produced over a period of 40 years with the National Herbarium in...
(who was responsible for over 700 plates), Barbara Pike
Barbara Pike
Rosalie Barbara Pike born 29 March 1933 in Johannesburg is a South African botanical artist.-Biography:Barbara Pike is one of two daughters born to Barend Elzas, an industrial chemist, and his wife Klara 'Claire' Kindinger. She attended the Parktown High School for Girls in Johannesburg and...
and Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
Johanna Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst was a noted South African botanical artist.She received her early education in Pretoria. After matriculating from Pretoria Girls' High School she started work in 1939 as a cartographer in the Survey Department of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines...
. The numbers are printed in soft cover measuring 250 x 190 mm.
The series was edited by Robert Allen Dyer
Robert Allen Dyer
Robert Allen Dyer was a South African botanist and taxonomist, working particularly on Amaryllidaceae and succulent plants, contributing to and editing of Bothalia and Flowering Plants of Africa and holding the office of Director of the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria from 1944 to...
who was succeeded by L. E. W. Codd.