This volume is a comprehensive listing of reference sources for Philippine ethnology, excluding physical anthropology and de-emphasizing folklore and linguistics. It is published as part of the East-West Bibliographic Series. This listing includes books, journal articles, mimeographed papers, and official publications selected on the basis of the ratings of sixty-two Philippine specialists. Several titles were added to fill the need for material in certain areas.

The importance of floristic inventory in the tropics; Regional reports, Asia, China, The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos, Sundaland, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi Celebes, The Moluccas, New Guinea, India, Sri Lanka; Australia and Pacifica (Pacific), Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hawaiian Islands; Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial Africa, Cameroun, People's Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar; Central America, Oaxaca, Mexico, Transisthmic Mexico, Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; Caribbean, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, The Lesser Antilles; South America, Colombia, Venezuela, The Guianas, Northwest South America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazilian Amazon, Eastern, Extra-Amazonian Brazil, Bolivia; Collection and Preparation of Bark and Wood Samples; Collection and Preparation of Karyological Samples; Collecting and Germinating Fernspores; Collection and Preparation of Pollen Samples; Collecting Tropical Germplasm; Collection and Preparation of Palm Specimens; Bryological Studies in the Tropics; Review of Mycological Studies in the Neotropics; Quantitative Inventory of Tropical Forests.