This gazetteer of localities where botanists have collected plants in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda has been compiled to help contributors to the Flora of Tropical East Africa, but will be valuable to all naturalists interested in the precise distribution of plants and animals in the region. It contains nearly 12,000 entries, 50% more than the limited first edition produced in 1970, and includes a great majority of the localities likely to be encountered on the labels of herbarium specimens from East Africa.
For each entry there is a place name, an indication of whether it is a town, hill, river or whatever, its country province and district according to the system used for the flora, followed by its latitude and longitude and then an indication of who collected there.
Localities of earlier collectors have been traced from itineraries derived from their travelogues and from the citation of their specimens in subsequent botanical works. So long as the journeys were restricted to foot marches, the few localities not traced from contemporary maps can be localized fairly precisely from the more complete itineraries.
For the major collections since the introduction of motor vehicles, localities have been extracted from the field note books where available. Otherwise records are taken from the citations in published parts of the flora or from enquiries from authors (the original card index was started in the 1950's).
Spellings adopted reflect current usage, as far as possible, but obsolete and alternative spellings are cross-referenced. The administrative divisions used for the flora date from the inception of the project in 1949, but a map is provided and names of the places on which the old districts were based are still familiar and provide a convenient reference point.
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