> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 179](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258657) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3083-1) LSID 3083-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21394877) QID Q21394877 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gentil, Louis \[Théodore Auguste François\] (1874-1949), Belgian botanist, born Oct 1874 in Liège, trained at the School of Horticulture, Tournai, Belgium, employed by Petersham nurseries, London, then Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea and finally the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1896-1897, dir., coffee and cocoa plantations, Equatorville (now Mbandaka), Congo Free State, Inspecteur forestier, Congo Free State, chief of culture 1902 at the State Botanic Garden in Bruxelles, retired 1939. **Abbreviated name**: *L. Gentil* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.Gentil*\] #### Note Often confused with Louis Gentil (1868-1925), a French geologist and explorer in n. Africa (Algeria and Morocco) who also collected plants. #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BR|BR]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 223; Backer p. 651; Barnhart 2: 38; BM 6: 362; Hortus 3: 1193; IH 2: 221 (excl. Morocco); Langman p. 312; Sotheby p. 230; TL-2/Suppl. 5: 429 (index); Tucker 1: 274, 3: 117; Zander ed. 11: 754, ed. 17: 949. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 179: 298. 24 Apr 1926. (obit., portr.) - B\[artlett\]., A.C., 1915. J. Kew Guild 3(22): 185. (portr.) #### Composite works Co-author with E. De Wildeman: - (1) *Observ. Apocyn. latex*... 1901 (TL-2/Suppl. 5, nr. 30.141); and - (2) *Lianes Caoutch*.... 1904, see TL-2/Suppl. 5, nr. 30.151, where no credit is given Gentil. ### Publications ##### n.36.287. Liste **Title** *Liste* des *plantes cultivées* dans les *serres chaudes* et coloniales du *Jardin Botanique* de l'*État* à Bruxelles... Bruxelles (M. Weissenbruch, Imprimeur du Roi) 1907. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Liste pl. cult. serres chaudes Jard. Bot. État*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1907 (9 Oct 1907, rec'd. at US), cover-t.p., p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-195, \[196\], *1* \[*2*?\] *pl*. (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: G, HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY (n.v.), US, USDA. *Microfilm*: Beltsville, Maryland (National Agricultural Library Photoduplication Dept.), 1971, 1 reel (35 mm, neg.). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Note*: The LC, MO, NY and US copies, at least, have *2 pl*., both uncol. phot.