Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Andel, W.J.D. van

 

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

 

Born: 1867, Rotterdam, Z.H., Holland.

 

career:

Came to the D.E.I. in 1891; since 1910 appointed Administrator of the Civil Service, stationed successively in the Lampong Districts (S. Sumatra) 1910-13, in Manado Residency (N. Celebes) 1913-21, in Government Celebes and Dependencies 1922-28, and in Banka and Dependencies 1928-29. After expiry of his European leave, he retired.

 

Collecting localities:

1898-1902. W. Java: Soekaboemi and Djampang Tengah.-1912. S. Sumatra, Lampong Districts.1-1916. N. Celebes: Paleleh.

 

collections:

For the greater part living plants in Hort. Bog.; also in Herb. Bog. [BO], e.g. Burmannia lutescens from the Lampong Distr.2

 

literature:

(1) cf. Versl. Pl. Tuin Buitenzorg for 1912, p. 18.

(2) cf. Jonker, Monogr. Burmanniaceae, 1938, p. 150.