OrknieJ

Career

Collecting localities

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Literature

Orknie, James

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

career:

Owner of the cutter ‘Loelia’ in which he made a voyage to the West Pacific.¹See also under I.A.M. Okney.

Collecting localities:

SE. New Guinea, Papua. He visited the island on the home voyage in the first half of 1873, touching at Manu-Manu in Redscar Bay, etc.; May 25 back at Somerset. He collected near the Baxter River (= Mai Kusa).

collections:

Herb. Melbourne [MEL]: severalplants communicated by R.Br. Smith to F. von Mueller.²

literature:

(1) cf. Chron. Lond. Miss. Soc. 1873, p. 224-225 and in A.W. Murray: ‘Forty Years’ Mission Work’ (London 1876) p. 484.
(2) cf. F. von Mueller, Descr. Not. Pap. PI. vol. 1, pt 3, p. 45.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Orknie, James
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Owner of the cutter ‘Loelia’ in which he made a voyage to the West Pacific.¹See also under I.A.M. Okney.
	Collecting localities: SE. New Guinea, Papua. He visited the island on the home voyage in the first half of 1873, touching at Manu-Manu in Redscar Bay, etc.; May 25 back at Somerset. He collected near the Baxter River (= Mai Kusa).
	collections: Herb. Melbourne [MEL]: severalplants communicated by R.Br. Smith to F. von Mueller.²
	literature: (1) cf. Chron. Lond. Miss. Soc. 1873, p. 224-225 and in A.W. Murray: ‘Forty Years’ Mission Work’ (London 1876) p. 484. (2) cf. F. von Mueller, Descr. Not. Pap. PI. vol. 1, pt 3, p. 45.