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Annonaceae - Saccopetalum horsfieldii From: Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibus illustratae, … by John Joseph Bennett, Robert Brown & Thomas Horsfield. London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852, plate 35. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 262 x 373 mm). Text missing. € 130
Horsfield, an American surgeon and naturalist lived in Java for sixteen years,
employed by the East India Co., where he assembled a herbarium amounting to some
2100 species. On his return to England he entrusted the cataloguing and
identification of the specimens to Robert Brown, who also arranged publication.
The determinations and descriptions were mostly the work of Bennett. The finely
engraved 50 plates are by John Curtis and E. Weddell after Charles and John
Curtis.* Pritzel 613; Jackson p. 396*; Great flower books p. 49; Nissen BBI 934; Stafleu & Cowan 418. www.meemelink.com | index | Annonaceae |