> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 173](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355260) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22557-1) LSID 22557-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729917) QID Q729917 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Loureiro, João de (1717-1791), Portuguese missionary and naturalist in Moçambique, Goa, and Cochinchina. **Abbreviated name**: *Lour.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lour.*\] #### Herbarium and types Only partly preserved. The main collection which is still in good order is at [[Collection BM|BM]]; a small set is also at [[Collection P|P]] (IDC 6212). The plants that remained at Lisbon seem to have been destroyed (fide de Candolle). Some of Loureiro's plants are also at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. A mss. *Nova genera plantarum* is at [[Collection BM|BM]] (Dryander 3: 35; BM 3: 1183). #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 11; Backer p. 338; Barnhart 2: 405; BM 3: 1183; Bret. p. 116; CSP 4: 91; Dawson p. 556, 944, suppl. 2: 84-85; Dryander 3: 182, 635, 5: 93, 95, 338; Frank 3(Anh.): 61; GR p. 766-767, cat. p. 67; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Lour."); IF p. 715; IH 1(ed. 6): 361, 2: 463; Jackson p. 383; Kew 3: 506; Lasègue p. 574; LS 15920; MW p. 285; PR 5637 (ed. 1: 6302); Rehder 5: 524; RS p. 116; SBC p. 126 ("Lour."); SO add. 737a; ST p. 72; TL-1/786; TL-2/1: 350; Tucker 1: 443; Zander ed. 10, p. 687 (1710-1796!), ed. 11, p. 783. - Amaral Franco, Anuar. Soc. Broter. 34: 11-17. 1968. - Anon., Flora 43: 207-208. 1860 (loss herb.); Goett. gel. Anz. 1792: 1249, 1502, 1757. 1792 (rev. *Fl. cochinch.*); Grande Enciclop. Portug. Brasil. 15: 492-493. s.d.; Med.-Chir. Zeit., Salzburg 1793(2): 115-121 (rev. Fl. cochinch.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographic 429-430. 1880 (herb.). - Coats, A. M., Plant hunters 203. 1969. - Exell, A. W. & G. A. Hayes, Kirkia 6: 96. 1967 (mentioned as collector in the Flora zambesiaca region (Mozambique 1781-1782) with coll. at LISU and P). - Gagnepain, F., *in* Lecomte, H., Fl. gén. Indochine, tome prél. 44. 1944. - Gomes, B. A., Memorias Acad. r. Sci. Lisboa, 2a Cl. scr.2. 4(1): 1-31. 1872. - Gomes e Sousa, A. de F., Explor. Natural, fl. Moçambique, Document. trim. nos. 57, 58. 1949. - J., Dict. sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 120-121. 1824. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 18. 1922 (mat. at LINN). - Jussieu, A. L., Ann. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 11: 74-76, 231-236, 327-328. 1808 (on some of L's genera). - Keefe, Biologist 48: 53. 1966. - Lacroix, A., Figures des savants 4: 146. 1938. - Merrill, E. D., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 72: 229-239. 1933; Trans. Amer. philos. Soc. ser. 2. 24: 1-445. 1935 (bibl., also extensive commentary on Fl. cochinch.); Loureiro e a sua obra botânica tradução de Paulo-Emilio Cavique Santos. Lisboa 1935, 15 p. (reprinted from Agros, ser. 2. no. 4; translated from Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 72: 229-239. 1933); Chron. bot. 14: 210, 343. 1954. - Moldenke, H. N., Plant Life 2: 70. 1946 (1948) (epon.). - Moore, S., J. Bot. 63: 245-256, 281-291. 1925 (identif. L. specimens at BM). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 27 (autogr. mss.), 41 (new genera, Banksian mss. 93B), 165 (plants through Riddel and Banks). 1904. - Poiret, J. L. N., Encycl. méth., Bot. 8: 736-737. 1808. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 513. 1977 (mosses at BM-Banks?). - Schott, H. W., Bonplandia 5: 122-129. 1857 (on *Lasia* Lour.). - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 233. 1971. - Wilson, E. H., Plant hunting 2: 104. 1927. #### Main commentary Merrill, E. D., Trans. Amer. philos. Soc. ser. 2. 24(2): 1-445. Jun 1935: A commentary on Loureiro's "Flora Cochinchinensis" (see TL-2/Merrill and e.g. L. Diels, Bot. Jahrb. 68(Lit.): 24-25. 1936). #### Note Amaral Franco (1968) showed conclusively that Loureiro was baptized on 8 Sep 1717 and hence born in that same year, and that he died in Lisbon on 18 Oct 1791. #### Eponymy *Loureira* Raeuschel (1797); *Loureira* Meisner (1837). ### Publications ##### n.5038. Flora cochinchinensis **Title** *Flora cochinchinensis*: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi Imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque locis variis. Omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale linnaeanum. Lahore, ac studio Joannis de Loureiro ... Ulyssipone \[Lisboa\] (Typis, et expensis academicis) 1790, 2vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. cochinch.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Sep 1790 (fide Loureiro in letter to Banks dated 22 Apr 1791; BM-Bloomsbury, Add. Mss. 8097-412 "H'a mezes q'elle \[Acad. Lisb.\] publicou a minha Flora Cochinchinense contra a minha vontade expressa"). *1*: \[i\*\], \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-353. *2*: \[1, 355\], 357-744. \[745, err.\]. *Copies*: MO, NY, U, USDA; IDC 6525. *Ed. 2*: 1793. *Copies*: Fl, MO, NY, US, USDA; IDC 566 – "... denuo in Germania édita cum notis Caroli Ludovici Willdenow... Berolini" (Impensis Haude et Spener) 1793. 2 vols. Oct. Edited by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812). *1*: \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-432. *2*: \[i\], 433-882, \[1-2, err.\].