> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 922](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334061) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10137-1) LSID 10137-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21388768) QID Q21388768 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stewart, John Lindsay (ca. 1832-1873), Scottish physician and botanist; MD Edinburgh 1856; assistant surgeon Bengal 1856; superintendent of the Botanical Garden Saharunpur 1860-1861 and 1864-1869; conservator of forests, Punjab 1864-1869; from 1869-1872 at Kew working at his Forest flora; died in India. **Abbreviated name**: *J.L. Stewart* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.L.Stewart*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection DD|DD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 329 (d. 5 Jul 1873); BB p. 288; BM 5: 2019; CSP 5: 831, 8: 1017, 11: 498, 12: 704; Desmond p. 584; Henrey p. 213; Hortus 3: 1204; Jackson p. 386, 389; MW p. 472; NI (alph.); Rehder 5: 824; Tl-2/704, see W.H. Fitch; Tucker 1: 669; Urban-Berl. p. 401. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1874: 31; J. Bot. 11: 319-320. 1873; Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1873-74: lvii-lix. - Boase, F., Modern Engl. biogr. 6: 624. 1965. - Brandis, D., *in* J.L. Stewart & D. Brandis, Forest fl. N.W. & C. India xiii-xv, xx. 1874. - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 102, 150, 161, 162, 163, 232. 1965. - Clegham, H., Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 31-33. 1876 (obit., bibl.); Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 8: 321-322. 1875 (obit.). - Stewart, R.R., Pakistan J. For. 17: 356. 1967. #### Eponymy *Stewartiopteris* Morgan et Delevoryas (1952) and *Stewartiotheca* D.A. Eggert et G.W. Rothwell (1979) were named for Prof. W.N. Stewart, American palaeobotanist. ### Publications ##### n.13.098. Punjab plants **Title** *Punjab plants*, comprising botanical and vernacular names, and uses of most of the trees, shrubs, and herbs of economical value, growing within the province. Intended as a hand-book for officers and residents on the Punjab... Lahore (printed at the Government Press,...) 1869. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Punjab pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1869 (p. xiv: Feb 1869), p. \[i\*-vi\*\], \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-269, \[1\]-106. *Copies*: B, HH, NY, USDA; IDC 7318. *Facsimile ed*.: 1977, Delhi (Periodical Experts...), Dehra Dun (Int. Book Distr.; also: Bishen Singh). *Copies*: BR, G, HH, MO, USDA. *Ref*.: Ascherson, P., Bot. Zeit. 29: 826-827, 839-840. 1871. ##### n.13.099. The forest fora of North-West and Central India **Title** *The forest fora of North-West and Central India*: a handbook of the indigenous trees and shrubs of those countries. Commenced by the late J. Lindsay Stewart,... continued and completed by Dietrich Brandis,... London (Wm. H. Allen & Co.,...) 1874. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Forest fl. N.W. India*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Dietrich Brandis (1824-1907), see TL-2/704. *Publ*.: Apr-Sep 1874 (TL-2/704), p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[1\]-608. *Copies*: BR, M, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 7319. *Facsimile ed*.: 1972, Dehra Dun (Bishen Singh...), as original. *Copy*: B. *Illustrations*: 1874, *Illustrations of the Forest flora of North-West and Central India*,... drawn by Walter Fitch,... London (Wm.H. Allen & Co.,...) 1874, p. \[1\]-5, *pl. 1-70* (uncol. liths). *Copies*: BR, HH(2), MO, US, USDA; IDC 7320. *Ref*.: Cleghorn, H., J. Bot. 13: 23-24. 1875.