Career

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Literature

 

Couperus, H.W.L.

 

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

 

career:

Temporary Curator of the Botanic Garden at Tjibodas (W. Java), Aug. 15, 1893-end of Nov. 1897; he was to carry out experiments on the breeding of some subtropical Japanese plants.

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: from Tjibodas, G. Gedeh, W. Java; in later years orchids from Fort de Kock, Sumatra West Coast. He forwarded 41 specimens of living orchids from the latter place to Hort. Bog. in 1910.

In Herb. Christiania (= Oslo) [O]: Veronica javanica Blume, no 48 (coll. March 1897).1

 

literature:

(1) cf. Lehmann in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 25, 1912, p. 195.