> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 175](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189646) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7541-1) LSID 7541-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973709) QID Q973709 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Perrottet, George (Georges Guerrard) Samuel (1793-1870), Swiss-born French gardener, sericiculturist, agronomical botanist, traveller and director of tropical cultures; in the "Rhône" around the world 1819-1821; Sénégal 1824-1829; in Pondichéry 1834-1839 and, ultimately, as government botanist from 1843-1870. **Abbreviated name**: *Perrottet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Perr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]]; a considerable world-wide collection also at [[Collection G|G]]; duplicates in many herbaria. *Plantae Senegambiae* (senegalenses) and *Plantae Pondicerianae*, irregular sets of herbarium specimens, were offered for sale (e.g. Bot. Zeit. 13: 183. 1855, 14: 599. 1856, 15: 175, 312. 1857; Bonplandia 6: 342. 1858, 10: 31. 1862; Flora 38: 112. 1855. – Letters and portrait at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 436; Barnhart 3: 71; BL 1: 53, 312; BM 4: 1551; Clokie p. 223; CSP 4: 835, 12: 568; Frank (Anh.): 75; Hortus 3: 1201 (Perrottet); Herder p. 217; IH 1 (ed. 6): 362, (ed. 7): 339 (set in DS); 2: (in press); Jackson p. 210; Kew 4: 298; Lasègue p. 89-94, 579 (index); MW suppl. p. 278; PR 3647, 7047-7052, 7601 (ed. 1: 7887-7892); Rehder 5: 662-663; SK 1: 404-405 (portr., coll., itin.), 5: cccx; TL-1/462; TL-22211, 6244, see also Delessert; Tucker 1: 550; Urban-Berl. p. 272, 310. #### Biofile - Abonnenc, E. et al., Bibl. Guyane franç. 1: 210. 1957. - Anon., Biogr. gén. 39: 653-654. 1862. (bibl.); Bot. Zeit. 28: 408. 1870; Bull. Soc. bot. France 2: 560. 1855 (exsicc. for sale); 17(bibl.): 45. 1870, 17(c.r.): 112. 1870, 29: 186. 1882 (on his collecting in Sénégal); Bull. Soc. Linn., Paris 2: 18. 1824 (leaves France for Guadeloupe and Sénégal); Cat. gén. livr. impr. bibl. natl., Paris 134: 271-272. 1835; Flora 16: 272. 1833 (price sericiculture), 20: 239. 1837, 23: 720. 1840, 24: 575-576. 1841 (in Nilgherry Mts.), 53: 174. 1868 (d.). - Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 34: 150. 1888 (material at W). - Buchinger, Bot. Zeit. 13: 183. 1855 (Pondichéry plants for sale). - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 20, 55, 89, 156. 1965. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 439. 1880 (main set at G, considerable set also at W). - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 373, 410. 1862. - Chavannes, E.L., Notices historiques sur MM. Samuel Perrottet et Louis Agassiz,... extrait de la Feuille du Canton de Vaud, 18. année, cahiers no. 223 et 224. Lausanne (Imprimerie des Frères Blanchard) 1831, p. \[1\]-20, *copy*: G. - Hasskarl, J.V., Allg. Sach– Namenreg. Flora 172. 1851. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 118. 1970. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 469, 472. 1884. - Kukkonen, I., Herb. Chr. Steven 78. 1971 (material at H). - L.Hn., Dict. Sci. méd. 75. 517. 1887. - Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 54. 1886 (material at MW). - Masy, M., Verh. Schweiz. nat. Ges. 90(1): 7-8. 1908. - Moreau, F., Rev. bryol. 21: 135. 1952 (Indian lich.). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH)173. 1904 (coll. at BM include mosses). - Perrottet, G.S., Das Ausland 6: 285 ff. 1883, 7: 115 ff. 1834 ("Wanderungen in Senegambien"; series of 23 and 13 papers, see list in CSP 5: 568; *in* Bajot et Poiré, Ann. mar. col. Paris 27 (ser. 3, non off. tome 1): 897-972. 1842 (fide Urban 1902; Rapport mission Inde, Bourbon, Martinique, Guadeloupe). - Robinson, C.B., Philipp. J. Sci. 3: 303-306. 1908 (P. and the Philippines). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19: 378-379. 1975 (crypt. coll.). - Steinberg, C.H., Webbia 32: 33. 1977 (material at FI). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3(1): 99-100. 1902 (on his W. Ind. coll.). - Vallot, Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 186. 1882 (coll. in Sénégal). - White, A., & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2. 95, 96, 242, 264. 1937. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 172-173. 1905. #### Composite works - (1) with Guillaumin and Richard, A., *Florae senegambiae tentamen* (1830-1833), see TL-2/2211. - (2) See Richard, A., for *Monographie des Orchidées recueillies dans les Nils-Gherries* (Indesorientales) par M. Perrottet,... Paris 1841, iii, 36 p., *12 pl*. #### Eponymy *Perrotetia* A.P. de Candolle (1825); *Perrottetia Kunth* (*1824*). ### Publications ##### n.7718. Catalogue raisonné des plantes introduites dans les colonies françaises de Bourbon et de Cayenne **Title** *Catalogue raisonné des plantes introduites dans les colonies françaises de Bourbon et de Cayenne* et de celles rapportés vivantes des mers d'Asie et de la Guyane au jardin du roi à Paris ... Paris (de l'imprimerie de Lebel,...) 1824. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. intr. colon.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai-Dec 1824 (t.P. preprint; journal issue for Mai 1924, see Robinson 1908), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-63. *Copies*: FI, G, NY. – Preprinted from Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 3(1): 89-128 for Mai 1824, 1824, publ. as a whole only after Feb 1826, 3(2): 129-151. "1824" publ. 14 Jun 1826 (BF; see MD p. 182). *Ref*.: Robinson, C.B. Philipp. J. Sci. 3: 303-306. 1908. ##### n.7719. Art de l'indigotier **Title** *Art de l'indigotier* ou traité des indigofères tinctoriaux et de la fabrication de l'indigo, suivi d'une notice sur le Wrightia tinctoria et sur les moyens d'extraire de ses feuilles le principe colorant qu'elles contiennent;... Paris (Librairie de Mme Ve Bouchard-Huzard,...) 1842. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Art indigotier*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1842, p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-219, chart. *Copy*: MO. ##### n.7720. Catalogue des plantes du jardin botanique et d'acclimatation du gouvernement à Pondichéry **Title** *Catalogue des plantes du jardin botanique et d'acclimatation du gouvernement à Pondichéry*. Pondichéry (É.-V. Géruzet,...) 1867. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. jard. bot. Pondichéry*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867 (BSbB rd. 28 Dec 1867-11 Dec 1868, p. \[i\]-ix, \[x-xi\], \[1\]-51. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 15(bibl.): 17. 1868.