Quick guide Episodic memory

provide information ranging from the morphology and uses of plant species to the history of plant exploration and the European discovery of Africa. The RBG Kew has contributed historical material, including maps and papers from David Livingstone’s South East Africa Expedition Papers and over 2,000 sheets of Africa-related material from the Director’s Correspondence covering early botanical exploration of tropical Africa. Two major works, The Flora of West Tropical Africa and the Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, are now available electronically for the first time, as are more than 1,200 original illustrations from Curtis’ Botanical magazine. Other works include La Flora du Cameroun, Flora Zambesiaca and Flowering Plants of South Africa. Collections soon to be added include watercolour drawings of macrophytes, ethnobotany data, a set of scholarly reference volumes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Medbase medicinal and traditional uses database from South Africa and the flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Vulnerable: A photo of flowers of Delonix regia, an increasingly rare native of Madagascar, now accessible at the API. (Picture: RBG Kew.) Quick guide