> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 937](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190408) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13084-1) LSID 13084-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4783330) QID Q4783330 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roupell, Arabella Elizabeth (née Pigott), (1817-1914), British (English) botanical artist; married Thomas Boone Roupell of the East India Company; travelled at the Cape (S. Africa) 1843-1845; back in England 1858. **Abbreviated name**: *Roupell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Roupell*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; paintings at Cape Town University. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 500 (epon.); Barnhart 3: 184; BB p. 262; BM 4: 1742; Desmond p. 532 (b. 23 Mar 1817, d. 31 Jul 1914); GF p. 74; Jackson p. 347; Kew 4: 528; NI 1687, 1687n, see also 1: 122; Plesch p. 387-388; PR 7821; Rehder 1: 494. #### Biofile - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 97. 1978. - Bird, Allen, The paintings of A.R., *in* More Cape flowers by a Lady, Johannesburg 1964; Arabella Roupell: pioneer artist of Cape flowers, S. Afr. nat. Hist. Publ. Co. 1975. 5 p., 18 pl., portr. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 301-302. 1981 (further refs.). - Parry, V.T.H., Kew Bull. 32: 260. 1979 (rev. A. Bird 1975). - Richings, F.G., Quart. Bull. S. Afr. Libr. 27(1): 4-14. 1972 (biogr.). - Stearn, W.T., Roy. Hort. Soc. Exhib. manuscr. books 46. 1954 (no. 107). - Tyrell-Glynn, W. & M.L. Levyns, Fl. afr. 57. 1963. #### Handwriting Quart. Bull. S. Afr. Libr. 27: 9. 1972. #### Eponymy *Roupellia* Wallich et W.J. Hooker ex Bentham (1849) honors the Roupell family, Charles Roupell of Charleston, South Carolina, his grandson Dr. Roupell of Welbeck Street, London, another grandson Thomas Boone Roupell in the East India Company, as well as the latter's wife, Arabella Elizabeth; *Roupallia* Hasskarl (1857, *orth. var.*); *Roupellina* (Baillon) Pichon (1950). ### Publications ##### n.9684. Specimens of the flora of South Africa **Title** *Specimens of the flora of South Africa* by a Lady \[London 1850\]. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Spec. fl. S. Afr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1850 (Hooker's J. Apr 1850; binding finished by 18 Mar 1850, letters to W.J. Hooker, Richings 1972), title-page (coloured plate), dedic. \[i\], preface \[iii, dated Sep 1849\], list of 103 subscribers, *g plates* (nos. 1-8, *pl. 9*, unnumbered, on last page of letterpress), letterpress accompanying plates \[1-17\], in all *10 pl*. and 23 p. *Copies*: BR, USDA. – The book is anonymous, but N. Wallich and W.J. Hooker, *in* W.J. Hooker Mag. 4466. 1 Sep 1849, and W.J. Hooker, J. Bot. Kew. Gard. Misc. 2: 127-128. Apr 1850 (rev.) disclose the identity of the author. The botanical text is by William Henry Harvey (1811-1866). See also W. Junk, Rara 2: 638. 1926-1936. *More Cape flowers by a Lady*. The paintings of Arabella Roupell. Text by Allan Bird. The South African Natural History Publication Company, Johannesburg, 1964, p. \[i-xv\], *12 pl*. (col.), \[1-2, bibl.\]. *Copies*: MO, NY.