> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 392](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266699) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13904-1) LSID 13904-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21390352) QID Q21390352 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Cantley, Nathaniel (x-1888), British (Thurso, Scotland, Caithness born) gardener, Kew gardener 1869-1872, assistant director Mauritius Botanic Garden 1873, superintendent Singapore Botanic Gardens 1880-1888. **Abbreviated name**: *Cantley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cantley*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection SING|SING]] (Mauritius and Malay Pen.). – Alvins, M.U. was "Cantley's Collector", 2840 nos. at [[Collection SING|SING]], see IH 2: 33. – Letters at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 101; Barnhart 1: 307 (d. 1888, Tasmania); BB p. 58 (b. 1887, err.); CSP 14: 48; Desmond p. 117; Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 115; Kew 1: 473-474; Morren ed. 10, p. 146; Rehder 1: 68; SK 1: 100, 4(2): 86, 92, (xxxiii, xxxvi); TL-2/see 9734 ("Capt. Cantley, not N. Cantley"); Tucker 1: 139. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Kew Guild 1898, p. 37 (portr.); Kew Bull. 1910(5): 156. - Burkill, I.H., Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 4(4/5): 119. 1927. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 330. 1938 (director Bot. Gard. Singapore 1880-1887 \[sic\]). - Jackson, B.D., Kew Bull. 1901: 13 (305 specimens at K from Mauritius and Malaya). - Rendle, A.B., Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 2: 101-103. 1918. - Ridley, H.N., Fl. Malay Peninsula 1: xvii, 436. 1922. #### Eponymy *Cantleya* Ridley, Fl. Malay Peninsula 1: 436. 13-22 Jul 1922, see ING 1: 285. 1979. ### Publications ##### n.24.687. Catalogue of plants in the Royal botanical Gardens, Mauritius **Title** *Catalogue of plants in the Royal botanical Gardens, Mauritius*... Port Louis, Mauritius 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. bot. Gard. Mauritius*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880, p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i-xii\], \[1\]-173. *Copies*: HH, K. ##### n.24.688. Notes on economic plants **Title** *Notes on economic plants*; being an appendix to the Report on the Botanic Gardens \[of the Straits Settlements\] for 1885... \[Singapore 1886\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1886, p. \[1\]-11. *Copy*: HH. *Id. for 1886*: 1887 (Nat. Nov. Feb (1) 1888), p. \[1\]-40. *Copy*: HH. – *Note on economic plants*, being an appendix to the Report on the Forest department of the Straits Settlements for the year 1885, Singapore 1887. Oct. – Fide E.M. Tucker p. 139.