Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

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

career:

Brother of Sappan bin Hassan and Sappi bin Hassan; employed by the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 1901 up to the present; 1901-12 plant collector to Mr Ridley; then Record Keeper, Botanic Gardens.

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula: e.g. on Lenggong limestone cliffs;¹ in Singapore Island at various times.

collections:

Earlier collections numbered along with Ridley’s, and later in Burkill’s Field Number Series (S.F. nos) (cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5); Herb. Sing. [SING], also in Herb. of cultivated plants.

literature:

(1) cf. Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. no 57, p. 5.