> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 566](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355653) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6610-1) LSID 6610-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5666212) QID Q5666212 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Moon, Alexander (x-1825), Scottish botanist and gardener for Kew, collected at Gibraltar and N. Africa (Barbary), superintendent of the royal botanic gardens in Ceylon (1817-1825). **Abbreviated name**: *Moon* \[standard form in IPNI: *Moon*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]](Ceylon), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]] (Gibraltar, N. Africa); 37 water colour drawings of Ceylon plants at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 380; Barnhart 2: 508; BB p. 2189; BM 3: 1343; Dawson p. 477, 620; Desmond p. 446; Herder p. 211; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Moon"); IH 2: 553; Jackson p. 395; Kew 4: 42; PR 6400 (ed. 1: 7129); Rehder 5: 586; SO 830; Tucker 1: 496; Zander ed. 10, p. 693, ed. 11, p. 791. - Boulger, G. S., *in* H. Trimen & J. D. Hooker, Handb. fl. Ceylon 5: 373-374. 1900. - Burkill, I. H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 36, 49, 50, 94, 97, 105, 122. 1965. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 169. 1904 (Ceylon pl.). - Steinberg, C. H., Webbia 32(1): 32. 1977. - Woodward, B. B., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 43. 1904 (drawings). #### Eponymy *Moonia* Arnott (1836). ### Publications ##### n.6264. A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon **Title** *A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon*, distinguishing the several esculent vegetables, fruits, roots and grains; together with a sketch of the divisions of genera and species in use amongst the Singhalese. Also an outline of the Linnaean sexual system of botany; in the English and Singhalese languages. For the use of the Singhalese... Colombo (printed at the Wesleyan mission press) 1824. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Ceylon*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul-Dec 1824 (p. 3\*: 26 Tun 1824), p. \[i, iii\], \[1\*\]-3\*, \[1\]-9, \[1\]-77, \[1\]-41, \[1-6, ind. lat.\], \[1\]-4, \[1\]-22, \[1\]-6, \[1-4, add.\]. *Copies*: FI, MO, USDA; IDC 7316. –"a somewhat unsatisfactory performance" (see Boulger 1900).