> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 514](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266191) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076604) QID Q5076604 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Curtis, Charles (1853-1928), British botanist and plant collector, born at Barnstaple, Devon, plant collector for Bale's Nursery, North Devon, collected for Veitch 1878-1884, to Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Molluccas, etc. ca. 1880, in charge of the Botanical Garden at Penang 1884-1903, returned to England at Barnstaple, died 16 Aug 1928. **Abbreviated name**: *Ch. Curtis* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection SING|SING]] (orig.), further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection KEP|KEP]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection W|W]] (Orch.). #### Eponymy *Curtisiana* H.N. Ridley, see ING 1: 462. 1979. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 405; BM 1: 407; Desmond p. 166; IH 2: 148; Kew 1: 663; Rehder 1: 464, 466, 3: 519; SK 1: 124-125 (coll. localities); Tucker 1: 182. #### Biofile - Burkill, I.H., Gardens’ Bull. Straits Settlem. 4(4-5): 119. Aug 1927. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter Botanicus 318. 1985. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 142. 1904 (coll. at BM). - Reinikka, M.A., A history of the Orchid 266-268. 1972. - Ridley, H.N., Fl. Malay Penins. 1: xvii. 1922; J. Bot. 66: 332-333. 1928 (obit.). ### Publications ##### n.28.479. catalogue **Title** A *catalogue* of the flowering *plants and ferns* found growing wild in the Island of *Penang*... Singapore (J. Straits Branch R. Asiat. Soc.). 1894. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1894 (in journal), p. \[67\]-167, \[163-167: "The botanist Penang" by H.N. \[Ridley\]\]. *Copies*: BM, L, NY; IDC 7179. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Straits Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 25: 67-167. 1894. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 32:286-287. Sep 1894 (brief rev.).