This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Meliaceae, a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs, found in tropical East Africa. It presents information on their character, occurrence, habitat, phenotypic variations and distribution of each of the species under these genera.

Brian Thomas Styles (Author) , Frank White (Author) Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK.

Introduction, Turraea, Melia, Azadirachta, Pseudobersauma, Trichillia, Lepidotrichilla, Ekebergia, Turraenthus, Guarear, Cedrela, Toona, Khaya, Entandrophragna, Pseudocedrela, Lovoa, Carapa, Xylocarpus.