Career

Collections

 

Croix, J. Erlington de la

 

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

 

career:

A mining engineer who accompanied Brau de St-Pol Lias (see there) to Sumatra and especially to the mines in Perak in 1880-81.

Planchonella erringtonii Dub. was named after him.

 

collections:

In Herb. Paris [P]: > 120 nos from Lahat, Perak in Malaya, partly from 1883 (?labelled Madame J. Errington de la Coix, possibly an error), but also with Brau de St-Pol Lias from 1880-81.