> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 445](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189916) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8025-1) LSID 8025-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167706) QID Q6167706 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Purdie, William (c. 1817-1857), Scottish gardener and plant collector; originally with Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh; from 1846-1857 superintendent, Botanic Gardens, Trinidad. **Abbreviated name**: *Purdie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Purdie*\] #### Herbarium and types Important sets at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection K|K]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MEDEL|MEDEL]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 115; BB p. 250-251; CSP 5: 43; Desmond p. 507 (d. 10 Oct 1857); Kew 4: 376; PR (alph.); Rehder 5: 694; Urban-Berl. p. 386. #### Biofile - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 146. 1967. - Anon., Belgique hort. 17: 254, 256. 1857 (bot. expl. Colombia); Bonplandia 5: 352, 364. 1857; Bot. Zeit. 16: 20. 1858 (d.), Flora 41: 111-112. 1858; Gard. Chron. 1857: 792 (d.); Gartenflora 7: 200. 1858 (d.); Österr. bot. Z. 8: 109. 1858 (d.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.23, 269.290. 1980. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 348, 349. 1969. - Ewan, J., Caldasia 5: 90-95. 1948 (rev. Purdieanthus... note on Purdie). - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27: 175. 1938 (dir. R. Bot. Gard., Port of Spain). - Hart, J.H., Ann. Rep. R. bot. Gard., Trinidad, 1887, p. \[1\]. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 121. 1970. - Hooker, W.J., Bot. Mag. 71: 21. 1847; London J. Bot. 6: 40-41. 1847 (app. Trinidad), J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9: 374-375. 1857 (d.). - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 54 (K). - Linden et Planchon, Troisième voyage de J. Linden 1: lx-lxi. 1863. - Morris, D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew, add. ser. 1: 55-56. 1898. - Pittier, H., Man. pl. usual. Venezuela 4-5. 1926. - Purdie, W., *in* Hooker, W.J., London J. Bot. 3: 501-533. 1844, 4: 14-27. 1845 (account Jamaican excursions). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 382. 1971 (coll.). - Seemann, B., Bonplandia 5: 352. 1857 (d.). - Stearn, W.T., J. Arnold Arb. 46: 268-270. 1965 (itin.). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 132. 1898 (biogr., itin.), 3: 107-108. 1902 (itin.). #### Eponymy *Purdiaea* Planchon (1846); Purdieanthus Gilg (1895), see ING 3: 1465.