Meyer

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Meyer

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

career:

The correct name of this collector is S. Mayer (see there).

collections:

According to Furtado (in litt.) a pharmacist at Singapore in 1896, who obtained a large number of herbs and shrubs growing as weeds and escaped in the vicinity of Singapore Botanic Garden, which he sent to Europe, mostly to Berlin [B].

We met with the following plants of his, cited in literature: Schles. bot. Tauschver. nos 298 and 800 (from Singapore, Apr. and Aug. 1896)¹ and Burmannia longifolia Becc. s.n. (from Singapore).² At least the latter specimen in Herb. Berl. [B] too.

literature:

(1) cf. Pflanzenreich 98, 1932, p. 697.
(2) cf. Jonker, Monograph Burmanniaceae, Thesis Utrecht, 1938, p. 61.

	Career Collections Literature
	Meyer
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: The correct name of this collector is S. Mayer (see there).
	collections: According to Furtado (in litt.) a pharmacist at Singapore in 1896, who obtained a large number of herbs and shrubs growing as weeds and escaped in the vicinity of Singapore Botanic Garden, which he sent to Europe, mostly to Berlin [B]. We met with the following plants of his, cited in literature: Schles. bot. Tauschver. nos 298 and 800 (from Singapore, Apr. and Aug. 1896)¹ and Burmannia longifolia Becc. s.n. (from Singapore).² At least the latter specimen in Herb. Berl. [B] too.
	literature: (1) cf. Pflanzenreich 98, 1932, p. 697. (2) cf. Jonker, Monograph Burmanniaceae, Thesis Utrecht, 1938, p. 61.