This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1980 edition. Excerpt: .( Dodson and Gentry, 1978; Gentry, 1978). More than 50 new species of higher plants have been described during the past few years from the Rio Palenque station ( km2), one of the few remaining areas of tropical moist forest in western Ecuador. The study of this forest should be pushed on as vigorously as possible. Priority attention should likewise be paid to the poorly known, but.
