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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

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

Born: France.

career:

Botanist of a Spanish expedition round the world (see below), partly accompanied by Haenke and Pineda. In 1784 he founded a Botanical Garden at Pamplona (Spain). For additional information and a correction cf. sub Haenke.

Author of some small botanical papers.¹

He is commemorated ín the genus Neea Ruiz & Pavon.

Collecting localities:

Malaspina’ Expedition, 1789-94.² Leaving Cadiz (July 30, 1789) for America, exploring part of it; sailing (Dec. 1791) via the Marianas to the Philippines: Luzon (March-Dec. 1792) (detailed itiner. cf. sub Haenke); 2nd stay in America; returning in Spain in Sept. 1794.

collections:

Herb. Bot. Gard. Madrid [MA]: 10.000 nos, no duplicates distributed.³ His drawings and MSS are at Madrid too.⁴ Ferns in Herb. Cavanilles (Madrid [MA]).⁵

Four thousand of the collected specimens were considered new. Much of the collection of Née at Madrid still remains unidentified. A few species were described from his Philippine material by Cavanilles and still fewer by Lagasca and by himself.⁶ Several of the localities mentioned on the labels are false.⁷

According to Mr A.H.G. Alston (in litt.) Née’s collection in Madrid is arranged geographically and contains over 1000 Philippine specimens.

literature:

(1) L. Née: ‘Del abacá, que es is Musa textilis’ (Anal. Cienc. Nat. 4, 1801, p. 123-130); ‘De la Pistia Stratiotes’ (l.c. 5, 1802, p. 76-82); ‘Del Buyo’ (l.c. 6, 1803, p. 289-297; and some in Konig & Sims Ann. Bot. 1, 1805 and 2, 1806.

For itinerary in Alaska cf. Bot. Not. 1940, p. 297.

(2) A. Malaspina: ‘Viajo politico-científico alrededor del mando por las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida al mando de los capitanes de navió D. Alejandro Malaspina y Don José de Bustamante & Guerra desde 1789 a 1794’ (1885).

(3) cf. Lasègue, Mus. Bot. Deless., 1845, p. 348, 451-452; Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 7, 1912, p. 365.

(4) cf. Colmeiro, La botanica y los botanicos etc., 1858, p. 48-49.

(5) cf. Christensen in Dansk Bot. Ark. 9, 1937, p. 4-5. A certain number of the collected ferns, were described and published by Cavanilles in his ‘Description de las Plantas’ (1802-03).

(6) cf. Merrill in ‘Discussion and Bibliography of Philip. flow. plants’ (Manila 1926, Enum. Philip. Fl. Pl. vol. 4) p. 47, who mentions in this connexion A.J. Cavanilles: ‘Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae gut sponte in Hispania crescent, gut in hortis hospitantur’ 1-6 (1791-1801), t. 1-600. The latter work mostly deals with S. American plants.

(7) cf. E.D. Merrill: ‘Genera and species erroneously credited to the Philippine flora’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 10, 1915, p. 171-194).

biographical data:

Colmeiro, La botanico y los botanicos etc., 1858, p. 183; In Hemsley & Hooker, Biol. Centr. Amer. 4, 1887, p. 119; Catal. Scient. Pap. 4, p. 582-583; Urban, Symb. Antif., 3, 1902-03, p. 92.

photo gallery:

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