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### Author
Clarke, Charles Baron (1832-1906), British botanist, nephew of Benjamin Clarke, in India 1865-1887.
**Abbreviated name**: *C. B. Clarke* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.B.Clarke*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]](Indian herbarium and mss.) [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]](ferns): duplicates in many herbaria.
*Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 129.
- Candolle, Phytographie 403. 1880.
- Kent, Brit, herbaria 48. 1953.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 146. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 69. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 601-602; Barnhart 1: 352; BB p. 65; BL 2: 216; BM 1: 352, 6: 209-210; CSP 7: 395, 9: 526, 14: 246; DNB suppl. 2(1): 366; IF p. 689-690; Jackson p. 532 \[index\]; Kew 1: 563-564; Langman p. 206; MW p. 80; NI 362-364; Zander ed. 10, p. 645.
- Clarke, J. Bot. 31: 135-138. 1893 (on collector's numbers).
- Candolle, C. de, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 6: 890-892. 1906.
- Prain and Bliss, J. Bot. 44: 370-377. 1906 (portr.).
- Thiselton-Dyer, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1906: 271-281 (bibl.).
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1906/7: 38-42. 1907.
- Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Curtis Bot. Mag. Dedications 243-244. 1932 (portr.).
- Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 126. 1936.
- Burkill, Chapt. hist. bot. India 144-146. 1965.
#### Composite works
- (1) Alph. de Candolle, *Monogr*.:
(a) *Commelinaceae*, 3: 113-324, pl. 1-8. Jun 1881.
(b) *Cyrtandraceae*, 5(1): 1-303. Jul 1883.
- (2) J. W. Gregory, *The Great Rift Valley*, appendix B: *List of Cyperaceae* from East Africa. 1896.
- (3) W. H. Harvey and O. W. Sonder, *Flora capensis*: vol. 7, 1897-1898, *Commelinaceae* and *Cyperaceae*.
- (4) Oliver, *FL Trop. Afr.*: various contributions, listed under Oliver.
- (5) Hooker, *Fl. Brit. India.Saxif.* 2: 388-411, *Crass*. 2: 411-423, *Dros*. 2: 423-425, *Hamam*. 2: 425-430, *Halor. 2*: 430-434, *Combr*. 2: 443-461, *all* Jul 1879; *Myrt*. 2: 506-512, *Melast*. 2: 512-565, *Lythr*. 2: 565-581, *Onagr*. 2: 582-590, *Samyd*. 2: 590-598, *Cucur*. 2: 604-635, *Begon*. 2: 635-656, *Datisc*. 2: 656-657, *Cact*. 2: 657-658, *Ficoid*. 2: 658-665, *Umb*. 2: 665-720, *Aral*. 2: 720-740, *Corn*. 2: 740-748, *all* Mai 1879; *Capr*. 3: 1-17, Mai 1880; *Valer*. 3: 210-215, *Dips*. 3: 215-219, *Styl*. 3: 419-420, *Gooden*. 3: 420-421, *Camp*. 3: 421-442, *Vacc*. 3: 442-448, *all* Mar 1881; *Vacc*. 3: 449-455, *Eric*. 3: 456-476, *Monotr*. 3: 476-477, *Epacr*. 3: 477, *Diap*. 3: 478, *Plumb*. 3: 478-481, *Myrs*. 3: 507-534, *Sapot*. 3: 534-549, Eben. 3: 549-572, *Styr*. 3: 572-590, *Olea*. 3: 590-618, Salv. 3: 618-620, *all* Dec 1882; Logan. 4: 78-93, Gent. 4: 93-132, *Polem*. 4: 133, *Hydroph*. 4: 133-134, *Borag*. 4: 134-179, *Conv*. 4: 179-228, *Solan*. 4: 228-246, *all* Jun 1883; *Lent*. 4: 328-336, *Gesn*. 4: 336-375, *Bign*. 4: 376-386, *Pedal*. 4: 386-387, *Acanth*. 4: 387-512, *all* Jan 1884; *Acanth*. 4: 513-558, *Verb*. 4: 560-604, *all* Aug 1885; *Cyper*. 6: 585-672, Sep 1893; *Cyp*. 6: 673-748, Apr 1894.
#### Eponymy
*Clarkeifedia* O. Kuntze (1903); *Clarkeinda* O. Kuntze (1891); *Clarkella* J. D. Hooker (1880).
#### Handwriting
Candollea 29: 225-226. 1974.
### Publications
##### n.1136. A list of the flowering plants, ferns, and mosses collected in the immediate neighbourhood of Andover
**Title**
*A list of the flowering plants, ferns, and mosses collected in the immediate neighbourhood of Andover*. Calcutta (E. Dean) 1886. Oct. (in fours)
**Abbreviated title**: *List fl. pl. Andover*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1866, p. \[i\], map, \[1\]-114. *Copies*: G, NY.
*Ref*.: BL 2: 243; BM 1: 352; Jackson p. 248; Kew 1: 563; IDC 5117.
##### n.1137. Commelynaceae et Cyrtandraceae bengalenses
**Title**
*Commelynaceae et Cyrtandraceae bengalenses* (paucis aliis ex terris adjacentibus additis). Calcutta (Thacker, Spink and Co.), Bombay (Thacker, Vining & Co.), London (W. Thacker & Co.) 1874. Broadsheet.
**Abbreviated title**: *Commelyn. Cyrtandr. bengal.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1874 (announced as Publ.. by J. Bot only Jul 1875), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-133, *pl.1-93, 87bis, 89bis*, plain liths. with occasional coloured details. *Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 352; Jackson p. 387; Kew 1: 563; NI 362.
##### n.1138. Compositae indica
**Title**
*Compositae indica* descriptae et secus genera Benthamii ordinatae. Calcutta (Thacker, Spink and Co.), Bombay (Thacker, Vining & Co.), London (W. Thacker & Co.) \[1876.\] Oct. in fours.
**Abbreviated title**: *Compos. ind.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1876, probably Sep (Bot. Zeit. 20 Oct 1876; J. Bot. Oct 1876) p. iii: 21 Jan 1876; p.v.: "it has occupied me nearly a year \[since Aug 1875\] to get the present book through the press..."), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-v, \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-347, \[i\]-xlv. *Copies*: B, BR, MICH, NY, US.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 352; Jackson p. 384; Kew 1: 563.
##### n.1139. A review of the ferns of Northern India
**Title**
*A review of the ferns of Northern India*. London 1880. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Rev. ferns N. India*.
**Notes**
*Orig. ed.*: Jan-Apr 1880 (Nat. Nov. Mai 1880), reprinted from Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. 1: 425-611. *pl. 49-84*, originally Published in three parts.
*Facsimile* reprint, 1973, as *Filices indiae*, announced as Published by the trade (*n.v.*).
*Ref*.: IF p. 690; Kew 1: 563.
##### n.1140. Illustrations of Cyperaceae
**Title**
*Illustrations of Cyperaceae*, prepared under the direction of the late Charles Baron Clarke... London (Williams & Norgate) 1909. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ill.Cyper.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Feb-Mai 1909 (p. vi: Feb 1909; Nat. Nov. Jun 1909), issued by Miss Clarke with a preface by B. D. Jackson, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\], *pl. 1-144* with letterpress, and index \[1\]-6. *Copy*: U. – The plates are collotypes or lithographs of drawings by Charles Fitch, N. E. Brown and Mathilda Smith. For *text* see Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1908, add. series 8.
*Ref*.: Kew 1: 564; Langman p. 206; MW p. 80; NI 364.
- Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 17. 1963.