> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 489](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212531) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10822-1) LSID 10822-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2462643) QID Q2462643 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Trimen, Henry (1843-1896), British botanist; M.B. Univ. London 1865, medical officer 1866-1869; assistant Botany Department British Museum 1869-1879; lecturer in botany at St. Mary's Hospital, London 1867-1872; director of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon 1879-1896. **Abbreviated name**: *Trimen* \[standard form in IPNI: *Trimen*\] #### Herbarium and types British herbarium at [[Collection BM|BM]]; other British material [[Collection EBH|EBH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Ceylon material [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection PDA|PDA]], [[Collection W|W]] (e.g. algae). – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 597; Barnhart 3: 401 (b. 26 Oct 1843, d. 16 Oct 1896); BB p. 305; BJI 1: 58; BL 1: 6, 2: 224, 244, 256, 321, 725; BM 5: 2139-2140, 8: 1325; Bossert p. 406; Clokie p. 256; CSP 6: 40, 8: 1115-1116, 11: 644-645, 19: 203-204; De Toni 1: cxxv; DNB 57: 230-231 (19: 1157-1158); Henrey 2: 32; Herder p. 22, 164, 325, 435; Hortus 3: 1205; IF p. 734, suppl. 4: 346; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344, 2: (files); Jackson p. 257; Moebius p. 422; Morren ed. 2, p. 24, ed. 10, p. 145; MW p. 502; NI 2001; PR 9508; Rehder 5: 860-861; SK 4: para. 10, 18, 64; SO 422; TL-1/78, 1220; TL-2/431, 2436, 4596, 11.610, see J.D. Hooker, S. Le M. Moore; Tucker 1: 700-701, 3: 312; Zander ed. 10, p. 725, ed. 11, p. 827-828. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 1/2: 31 (app. Ceylon), 384 (arrived Peradeniya) 1880, 67: 96. 1896 (will retire; J.C. Willis will succeed); Bot. Gaz. 22: 431. 1896 (d.); Bot. Not. 1897: 47 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 25: 384. 1867 (lecturer St. Mary Hosp. London), 29: 780. 1871 (assistant at BM under Carruthers together with James Britten), 38: 30. 1880(app. Ceylon), 54: 352. 1896 (d.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 241: 424-425. 1964; Bull. misc. inf. Kew 1896: 147 (retired from post of director 1 July) 219-220; Bull. Soc. bot. France 26 (bibl.): 191. 1879 (app. Ceylon); Flora 50: 460. 1867 (app. St. Mary Hosp. London), 63: 15. 1880 (director Bot. Gard. Ceylon); J. Bot. 11: 288. 1873 (Trimen's herb. rd. by BM), 34: 487. 1896 (d.); Nat. Nov 18: 532. 1896 (d.); Österr. bot. Z. 17: 407. 1867 (app. lecturer St. Mary Hosp., London), 30: 66. 1880 (app. Ceylon), 46: 473. 1896 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1896-1897: 70-71. 1897, 129: 76-77. 1917. - Bergdolt, E., Karl von Goebel ed. 2. 52, 70. 1941. - Boase, F., Mod. Engl. biogr. 3: 1018-1019. 1965. - Bond, T.E.T., Nature 152: 470. 1943. - Boulger, G.S. *in* H. Trimen and J.D. Hooker, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 5: 380-381. 1900; *in* C.E. Salmon, Fl. Surrey 53. 1981. - Bower, F.O., Sixty years of botany in Britain 40. 1938. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229, 255, 229.445, 255.68, 269.362. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 34: 489-494. 1896 (obit.); Trop. Agriculturist, Colombo 20(1): 1-6. 1900. - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 244 \[index\]. 1965. - Dolezal, H., Friedrich Welwitsch 248 \[index, 10 entries\]. 1974. - Druce, G.C., Fl. Berkshire clxxvi-clxxvii. 1897. - E.B.P., Proc. R. Soc. London ser. 5. 91: xviii-xxvii. 1920 (obit., portr.); Nature 79: 485-486. 1916. - Frodin, H., Guide standard floras world no. 829. 1984. - Gage, A.T., Hist. Linn. Soc. London 174 \[index\]. 1938. - Hemsley, W.B., Nature 54: 628-629. 1896. - Holttum, R., Taxon 19: 710. 1970 (established a laboratory for visiting botanists at Peradeniya). - J.W.S., Proc. R. Soc. London 75: 161-165. 1905 (obit.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 82. 1957 (BM Brit. herb. 3000); Hist. Fl. Middlesex 23. 1975. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish Herb. 260. 1984. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 742. 1985. - Nelmes & Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Mag. dedic. 1827-1927, p. 258-260, portr. 1932. - Plarr, V.G., Men and women of the time ed. 14. 845. 1895. - Thiselton-Dyer, H.T., Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 75: 161-165. 1901 (obit., portr.). - Treub, M., Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1890: 390 (descr. Trimen's garden and work). - Willis, J.C, Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya 1: 10-12. 1902. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 204, *pl. 146.* 1905 (portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Editor, *Journal of Botany* 8-17, 1870-1879, see TL-2/11.610. - (2) With Robert Bentley (1821-1893), *Medicinal plants* 1875-1880, 4 vols., see TL-2/431. #### Note Published a *Botanical bibliography of the British counties*, J. Bot. 12: 66-73, 108-112, 155-158, 178-183, 233-238. 1874. #### Eponymy *Trimenia* B.C. Seemann (1873). ### Publications ##### n.15.149. Flora of Middlesex **Title** *Flora of Middlesex*: a topographical and historical account of the plants found in the county; with sketches of its physical geography and climate, and of the progress of Middlesex botany during the last three centuries... London (Robert Hardwicke,...) 1869. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Middlesex*. **Notes** *Junior author*. William Turner Thiselton Dyer (1843-1928). *Publ*.: 1869 (p. vi: Aug 1869; rev. J. Bot. Dec 1869; Flora 3 Mar 1870), p. \[i-ii\], map, \[iii\]-xli, \[xliii\], \[1\]-428. *Copies*: B, BR, G, HH, L, MICH, MO, NY, USDA. – Follow-up publ.: see BL 2: 256-257. *Collaborators*: Worthington Smith (Hymenomyc.), J.M. Crombie (Lich.), Braithwaite and R.M. Hind (Mosses, Hepat.). *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 4: 64. 1866 (collecting materials), 5: 90. 1867 (acknowledges cooperation), 6: 59-60. 1868 (in preparation), 6: 352. 1868 (to be publ. 1869), 7: 363-368. 1869 (review of published book). ##### n.15.150. Hand-guide to the Royal botanic Gardens, Peradeniya **Title** *Hand-guide to the Royal botanic Gardens, Peradeniya*... Colombo (Frank Luker,...) 1883. Oct. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: Dec 1883 (p. iv: Nov 1883), frontisp., map, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-32. *Ed. 2*: 1885 (preface Nov 1885), n.v. *Ed. 3*: 1890 (p. vi: 1890), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-34, map. *Copy*: HH. *Ed. 4*: 1894, n.v. ##### n.15.151. A systematic catalogue of the flowering plants **Title** *A systematic catalogue of the flowering plants* and ferns indigenous to or growing wild *in Ceylon*. With the vernacular names and with references to Thwaites's "Enumeratio" ... Colombo (George J.A. Skeen,...) 1885. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syst. cat. fl. pl. Ceylon*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun-Jul 1885 (p. iv: Feb 1855; J. Bot. Aug 1855; Bot. Zeit. 25 Dec 1885; Nat. Nov. Sep(1) 1885), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-137, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: G, US, USDA; IDC 7272. – Published as J. Ceylon Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 9(1) \[no. 30\], 1885. *Accompanying remarks*: 1885, J. Ceylon Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 9(2) \[no. 31\], p. 139-159, *Remarks on the composition, geographical affinities, and origin of the Ceylon flora*. – Contains further errata in footnote to p. 139. ##### n.15.152. Notes on the flora of Ceylon **Title** *Notes on the flora of Ceylon*... Reprinted from the "Journal of Botany", May-Sept., 1885. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai-Sep 1885 (in journal), p. \[1\]-35. *Copies*: G, HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 23: 138-145. Mai, 171-176. Jun, 203-209. Jul, 238-245. Aug, 266-274. Sep 1885. ##### n.15.153. Note on Balanophora Thwaitesii **Title** *Note on Balanophora Thwaitesii*, Eichl.... Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal-Botany, vol. xxii. \[1886\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Oct 1886 (in journal), p. \[330\]-332. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 22: \[330\]-332. 1886. ##### n.15.154. Hermann's Ceylon Herbarium and Linnaeus's **Title** *Hermann's Ceylon Herbarium and Linnaeus's* "*Flora zeylandica*"... Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal-Botany vol. xxiv. \[1887\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Nov 1887, p. \[129\]-155. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 24: \[129\]-155. 1887. ##### n.15.155. Hortus zeylanicus **Title** *Hortus zeylanicus*. A classified list of the plants, both native and exotic, growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Pérádeniya, Ceylon... Colombo (George J.A. Skeen,...) 1888. Oct. (in 4-s) **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. zeyl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1888 (p. v: Dec 1887), p. \[i\]-vi, \[vii\], \[1\]-129. *Copy*: HH. ##### n.15.156. Additions to the Flora of Ceylon **Title** *Additions to the Flora of Ceylon*, 1885-88... Reprinted from the "Journal of Botany" for June, 1889. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1889, p. \[1\]-12. *Copies*: G, HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 27: 161-172. Jun 1889. ##### n.15.157. A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon **Title** *A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon* containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses... London (Dulau & Co.,...) 1893-1931, 6 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Handb. fl. Ceylon*. **Notes** *Authorship*: 1-3: by H. Trimen, 4-5: "continued by J.D. Hooker", 6: Supplement by A.H.G. Alston. *1*: Mai 1893 (p. x: Jan 1893; Bot. Zeit. "soeben" 1 Jun 1893, ÖbZ Mai 1893; Nat. Nov. Jun(2) 1893), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-327 (with atlas part \[*1*\]). *2*: Jun-Jul 1894 (J. Bot. Jul 1894; Nat. Nov. Aug(1) 1894), p. \[i-vii\], \[1\]-392 (with atlas part \[*2*\]). *3*: Aug 1895 (J. Bot. Sep 1895; Nat. Nov. Sep(1) 1895), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-477, \[479, err.\], \[480, colo.\], (with atlas part \[3\]). *4*: Oct-Dec 1898 (p. iii: Sep 1898; J. Bot. Apr 1899, late announcement; Bot. Zeit. 16 Mar 1899; Nat. Nov. Jan(1) 1899), p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-iii, \[1\]-384 (with atlas part \[*4*\]). *5*: Feb-Mar 1900 (J. Bot. Mai 1900, rev.; ÖbZ for Feb-Mar 1900; Nat. Nov. Mai-Jun 1900), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-477, 2 maps. *6*: 24 Mar 1931 (date on t.p.; Nat. Nov. Nov 1931), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-350. *Plates*: \[*1*\]: 1893, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 1-25* with text. \[*2*\]: 1894, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 26-30*, id. \[*3*\]: 1895, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 51-75*, id. \[*4*\]: 1898, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 76-100*, id. *Copies*: B, BR, G, H, MO, PH, U; IDC 486. *Corrections and additions*: 1911, by J.C. Willis and A.M. Smith, Ann. R. Bot. Gard., Peradeniya 5(3): 175-214. 1911. *Facsimile reprint*: 1975, Dehli (Bishen Singh...). *Copy*: USDA. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 30: 317. Oct 1892 (plan of work), 31: 375-376. Dec 1893 (rev.). - Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 38: 191-193. 1900 (rev.). - Roth, E., E., Bot. Centralbl. 61: 62-64. 9 Jan 1895 (rev. part 1), 66: 31-33. 1 Apr 1896 (rev. part 3).