La Flore du Maycombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges le Testu, Administrateur des Colonies. [I.].

Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1924. 4to (28.3 x 22.6 cm). 125 pp.; 11 plates, all after drawings of Mlle. Vesque. Oriiginal printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen paper on the flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo, Congo Kinshasa, Zaire) and adjacent regions. Many species are described and finely illustrated here for the first time. "Mayombe (or Mayumbe) is a geographic area on the western coast of Africa occupied by low mountains extending from the mouth of the Congo River in the south to the Kouilou-Niari River to the north. The area includes parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola (Cabinda Province), the Republic of the Congo and Gabon. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mayombe is part of the north-western province of Kongo Central on the right bank of the River Congo, and contains the cities and towns of Lukula, Seke Banza, Kangu and Tshela" (Wikipedia). The author, the French botanist François Pellegrin (1881-1965) was a specialist in African tropical floras. Offprint from the society's Mémoires. Published in three parts over a long period it is seldom found complete. This is the first part. A very good, complete copy.