Anderson, Captain |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
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Visited Ambon before 1814 and from there brought seeds for Roxburgh, e.g. of Wendlandia paniculata.1 This might be the Capt. Anderson of the Hon. Comp.’s ship Admiral Hughes, which called at Penang in 1790.2 Evidently collected in the Moluccas in 1802 (see Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814, p. 15). |
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(1) cf. Cowan in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 14, 1936, p. 33. (2) cf. Th. Forrest: ‘A voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago etc.’ (London 1792) p. 25. |