The Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana is "the first full scientific account of a botanically rich and geologically ancient part of South America." Comprised of several volumes, the publication includes Vegetation and Topographical maps, color plates, black-and-white photos, line drawings, and detailed accounts for thousands of species--a few of which are offered on-site. The Flora is based in part on the field expertise of Alwyn H. Gentry, arguably the leading authority on the botany of tropical America, who met an untimely death in 1993 when his small airplane crashed into a remote mountain ridge in western Ecuador. Although we lost "one of the greatest plant explorers and botanists of all time," several of the fruits of Gentry's labors are now available on the Web. Botanists will want to study Gentry's impressive Bignoniaceae account (Volume 3 of the Flora) and Denis Kearns and others' Clusiaceae account (Vol 4 of the Flora).