Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Roelofsen, Jan Hendrik

 

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

 

Born: 1878, Tjilatjap, Java.

 

career:

Since 1902 Forest Officer in D.E. Indian Government service, stationed in Java, successively at Todanan (Kediri), W. Priangan (1906), since 1907 in the teak districts; in 1914 for some time on the staff of the Forest Research Institute at Buitenzorg, to be restationed in the teak districts in 1915; in 1920 transferred to Priangan Residency (for some time besides in charge of the forest administration of Krawang), and in 1925 to Salatiga in Central Java. Since 1926 Inspector, stationed in the Head-office at Buitenzorg; he retired in 1929.

 

Collecting localities:

19 . .. Centr. Java: Banteren near Banjoemas.-1923. W. Java: G. Rakoetak, Bandoeng and G. Malabar.

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: plants from Banjoemas; Priangan plants numbered in Beumée’s series (see there).