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442 BLUMEA Vol. 45, No. 2, 2000 Book notices A fullreview ofbooks announcedinthis section may be published in Blumeaata laterdate. J.H.KIRKBRIDE,C.R.GUNN,A.L.WEITZMAN&M.J.DALLWITZ:Legume (Fabaceae) Fruits andSeeds.Interactiveidentificationand informationretrieval. CD-ROM. Parkway Publishers, Inc., Boone,NorthCarolina, 2000.Price: USD75(+ shipping). ThisCD-ROMisbasedon thebooksonfruitsandseedsofgeneraofLeguminosae, includingthenot yetpublished volumeonPapilionoideae. Itisproduced intheDELTA software system using theprogramINTKEY.Themainparts are theinteractivekey, theimages offruits andseedsandthedatabasewiththe descriptions.Identificationis fairly simple afteryou havegottenusedto the INTKEYparticulars. TheCD-ROM runs underMS-Windows95,98, NT. PETER LEINS: Bliiteund Frucht. Morphologie, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Phylo- genie, Funktion, Okologie. E. Schweizerbart'sch Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 2000. ix+390pp., illus. ISBN3-510-65194-4.Price: DEM 88. Thisbook describesthe form andfunctionof flowers,flowerparts, pollen, fruits and seeds. Much attentionis paid to pollen transfer and seed dispersal types. This well-printed volumeis illustratedby alarge numberofbeautifulphotographs. S.H.J.V. RAPANARIVO, J.J. LAVRANOS, A.J.M. LEEUWENBERG & W. ROOSLI: Pachypodium (Apocynaceae). Taxonomy, HabitatsandCultivation.A.A.Balkema Uitgevers B.V.,Rotterdam, 1999. 120pp.,(colour) illus.ISBN90-5410-486-6.Price: EUR 45.00. This beautifully produced and illustratedbook containsa full monograph ofthe African genusPachypodium (Apocynaceae). The book consistsof three parts: 1.A taxonomicrevisionby Rapanarivo &Leeuwenberg; 2.The description ofthehabitats ofthespecies byRapanarivo; 3.Notesonthecultivationofseveralspecies byRoosli. Itis amustforallthosewhoare interestedinsucculentApocynaceae. JUSTOP. ROJO: Revised LexiconofPhilippine Trees.ForestProductsResearch and Development Institute, Department ofScience and Technology, Laguna, 1999. 484 pp., illus.ISBN 971-626-002-4.Priceunknown. ArevisededitionofSalvosa's LexiconofPhilippine Treesof 1963. Thevolume contains anannotatedlist oftrees of thePhilippines, including wild and cultivated species. COLIN R. TOWNSEND,JOHNL. HARPER & MICHAELBEGON: EssentialsofEcology. Blackwell Science, Ltd.,2000.xii+552pp.,illus.ISBN0-632-04348-2.Price: GBP 24.95. Thisbookdiscusses awiderangeof subjects ofplantandanimalecology bothfor the advanced student and for the general public. Topics range from "How to do ecologicalresearchthroughspecies diversity' and'Evolutiontoapplicationofecology inpestcontrol, sustainableuseofresources andconservation'. Ahandyandhandsome bookforthosewhowant a quick introductionandreferenceto ecology. Frits Adema