> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 162](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120293) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/607-1) LSID 607-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2985757) QID Q2985757 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Beddome, Richard Henry (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Beddome, Richard Henry (1830-1911), English army officer and forestry botanist in India. **Abbreviated name**: *Bedd.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bedd.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (10.000 species); some of the types perhaps at [[Collection K|K]], further material at [[Collection CAL|CAL]]. *Ref*.: BB p. 27; IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 64. - Murray, Hist. coll. BMNH 133. 1904. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 152; BB p. 27; BM 1: 121, 6: 71; CSP 1: 242, 6: 581, 7: 122-123, 9: 168, 13: 400; IF p. 680-681, suppl. p. 75; Jackson p. 388, 391, 520; Kew 1: 199; Langmanp. 122; MW p. 39; NI 115-120; PR 554-557, 10540; Zander ed. 10, p. 633. - Drummond, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1910-1911: 32-34. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1911: 164-165. #### Eponymy *Beddomea* J. D. Hooker (1862); *Beddomiella* Dixon (1922). ### Publications ##### n.391. The ferns of Southern India **Title** *The ferns of Southern India*. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras presidency. Madras (Gantz brothers) 1863\[-1864\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Ferns S. India*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: text p. \[i\*\], \[iii\*\], \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-88, index \[i\]-vii, *pl. 1-271, 28a. Copies*: BR, G, L, MO, (in orig. sequence of fasc), NY. *Fasc. 1-10: pl. 1-123.* 1863. *Fasc. 11-16: pl. 124-271.* 1864, last parts perhaps 1865 (Flora 29 Nov 1865). *Ed. 2*: Madras (Higginbotham and Co.) \[1872-\]1873, p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-88, *pl. 1-271, 28a*, p. \[i\]-xv. *Copies*: G, MO, NY. – The plates are lithographs of drawings by G. Govindo and G. Winchester. Reprints of the 1863 edition (New Delhi 1870, n.v.) and of the 1873 edition (New Delhi 1969, n.v.) are offered by the book trade. *A Supplement to the Ferns of Southern India and British India...* Madras. Qu. 1876 has p. \[1\]-28 and *plates 346-390* (see Ferns of British India). *Ref*.: BM 1: 121; IF p. 680; Jackson 386; Kew 1; 199; NI 116-117; PR 555; IDC 7158. ##### n.392. The ferns of British India **Title** *The ferns of British India*. Being figures and descriptions of ferns from all parts of British India (exclusive of those figured in "the ferns of Southern India and Ceylon"). Madras (Gantz brothers, at the Adelphi Press) \[1865-\] 1866-1868 \[-1870\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Ferns Brit. India*. **Notes** |vol |fasc. |pag. |*plates* |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1-8 | |1-120 |1865| | |9-14 |\[i\] |121-150 |1866| | | | |151-220 |1866| |2 |15-17 | |221-255 |1867| | |18-20 |\[i\] |256-300 |1868| |3 |21-22 | |301-330 |1869| | |23 |\[i-vi, index\], \[2, corr.\] |331-345 |1870| |Suppl. |– |\[1\]-28 |346-390 |1876| *Copies*: L, MO. – The plates are lithographs by G. Winchester (1-120), G. Govindo, W. H. Fitch, H. Baker et al., they are accompanied by unnumbered text pages. A reprint '1973, available' is announced by the trade. *Ref*.: BM 1: 121; IF p. 680; Jackson p. 385, 386; Kew 1: 199; NI 115, 117; PR 556. ##### n.393. The flora sylvatica for Southern India **Title** *The flora sylvatica for Southern India*: containing quarto plates of all the principal timber trees in southern India and Ceylon, accompanied by a botanical manual, with descriptions of every known tree and shrub, and analysis of every genus not figured in the plates. Madras (Gantz Brothers) \[1869-1874\], 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. sylv. S. India*. **Notes** *Publ*.: The work consists of plates illustrating a single species accompanied by a page of letter press (arabic pagination). In addition there is an independently paged (roman pagination) 'Forester's Manual,' which is illustrated by 29 plates (*1-27bis, 29*) giving an "analysis of genera." The *Manual* is sometimes bound separately as a third volume but has no title-page of its own. |parts |pages |manual |*plates* (*in flora*) |*plates* (*in manual*) |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1-3 |1-36 | |1-36 | |1869| |4-6 |37-72 |i-xvii |37-72 |1-2 |1870| |7-14 |73-168 |xix-lxxxii |73-168 |3-11 |1871| |15-24 |169-288 |lxxxiii-clxix |169-288 |12-22 |1872| |25-27 |289-325(-327?) |clxxi-ccxxxvi |282-325(-327?) |23-27 bis |1873| |28 |(?326-)328-330 |ccxxxvi\[bis\]-ccxxxviii |(?326-)328-330 |29 |1873 sero vel 1874 prim.| *Copy*: G. *A facsimile* reprint was announced, but not yet published, by Asher 1974. *Ref*.: BM 1: 121; GF p. 49; Jackson p. 387; NI 118; SK p. clxix (Stearn). ##### n.394. Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis **Title** *Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis*; or plates and descriptions of new and rare plants, from Southern India and Ceylon.... vol. I. Containing 300 plates. Madras (Gantz Brothers), London (J. van Voorst) 1874. Qu. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. pl. Ind. or.* **Notes** *Orig. ed*.: 1868-1874, in 15 parts of 20 plates each accompanied by some (usually 4) pages of text, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-70, *pl. 1-300. Copies*: MO, U. – The uncoloured lithographs are of drawings by H. de Alwis and G. Govindo. *Facsimile ed*.: New Delhi (Today & Tomorrow) 1972, same pagination (new imprint on \[i\*\]). *Copy*: US. *Ref*.: BM 1: 121; GF p. 49; Jackson p. 384; Kew 1: 199; NI 120; PR 557, 10540. ##### n.395. Supplement to the ferns of Southern India and British India **Title** *Supplement to the ferns of Southern India and British India*, containing a revised list of all the ferns of India, Ceylon, Birmah and the Malay Peninsula and 45 plates of hitherto unfigured species. Madras (Gantz Brothers, at the Delphi Press) 1876, Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Suppl. ferns S. Ind.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1876, p. \[1\]-28, *pl. 346-390. Copies*: G, L, MO. ##### n.396. Handbook to the ferns of British India **Title** *Handbook to the ferns of British India*, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula... Calcutta (Thacker, Spink and Co.), Bombay (Thacker & Co.), Madras (Higginbotham & Co.), London (W. Thacker & Co.) 1883. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Handb. ferns Brit. India*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1883 (preface Mai 1833; Nat. Nov. Apr and Mai 1883 \[sic\]; J. Bot. Jun 1883), p. \[i\]-xiv, *pl. 296-297*, \[1\]-500, *plates 1-295, 298-300* in text. *Copies*: BR, G, L (2), MO (inscribed by author 22 Jun 1883), NY, U. *A Supplement... ferns of British India*, Calcutta, Oct., p. \[1\]-110, appeared in 1892. *Copy*: L. (*Suppl. ferns Brit. Ind.*) *Reprint* of the handbook and supplement, New Delhi (Today and Tomorrow) 1969, as original except that 296/297 are now placed in numerical order, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-500, \[1, err.\], suppl. \[1\]-110. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 12; IF p. 681; Kew 1: 119; NI 119; IDC 5086. - Nayar and Kaur, Companion to R. H. Beddome; Handbook... Koenigstein (Koeltz) 1974 (further supplement), xiii, 244 p.