BoxallR

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Boxall, Richard

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

(cf. also William Boxall, ? identical)

career:

Employed by the firm of Hugh Low and Co., to collect plants of horticultural value.

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula:¹ Kedah Peak (with Sir Hugh Low) and the Settlements, about 1880.-Borneo.²-In 1891 Philippines³: in Samar and Mindanao.

collections:

Herb. Kew [K]: from Burma and Shan States (pres. 1890-91). In Herb. Vienna [W]: (? Philippine) orchids with Herb. Reichenbach.

literature:

(1) cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.
(2) Cited by Merrill, Enum. Born. Pl., 1921, p. 157, as the collector of Dendrobium bostrychodes Rchb.f.
(3) A certain Boxall (without initials) is cited by Merrill as a botanical collector in the Philippines in Bull. Bur. ofAgr. Manila no 4, 1903, p. 30.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Boxall, Richard
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	(cf. also William Boxall, ? identical)
	career: Employed by the firm of Hugh Low and Co., to collect plants of horticultural value.
	Collecting localities: Malay Peninsula:¹ Kedah Peak (with Sir Hugh Low) and the Settlements, about 1880.-Borneo.²-In 1891 Philippines³: in Samar and Mindanao.
	collections: Herb. Kew [K]: from Burma and Shan States (pres. 1890-91). In Herb. Vienna [W]: (? Philippine) orchids with Herb. Reichenbach.
	literature: (1) cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5. (2) Cited by Merrill, Enum. Born. Pl., 1921, p. 157, as the collector of Dendrobium bostrychodes Rchb.f. (3) A certain Boxall (without initials) is cited by Merrill as a botanical collector in the Philippines in Bull. Bur. ofAgr. Manila no 4, 1903, p. 30.