The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive accounts of the plants and ferns native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi Strip. Published in paperback following a modified Bentham & Hooker system, as parts or as whole volumes as and when they are complete. Volume 8 part 8 focuses on the family Labiatae (or Lamiaceae) commonly known as the mints.