Career

Collecting localities

 

Verstrijden, A.

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Died.

 

career:

Assistant Pharmacist, at the time employed in the Military Hospital at Fort de Kock (W. Sumatra). His favourite pursuit was butterflies, but he occasionally collected living orchids which he presented to E.R. Jacobson (see there).

 

Collecting localities:

In March 1917 he collected material of Cinnamomum burmanni Blume, no 2806 ( ? series Jacobson), near Fort de Kock, Sumatra West Coast (cf. Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 7, 1925, p. 452).