Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Hofstee, Jan

 

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

 

Born: 1895, Opènde near Grootegast, Gr., Holland.

 

career:

Since 1929 Officer for Freshwater Fishery in the D.E.I., stationed successively at Buitenzorg (W. Java), Malang (E. Java) 1929-36, Pamekasan (Isl. Madoera near E. Java) 1937-40, and since 1940 at Magelang in Central Java; after the war, in 1947, reappointed in active service.

 

Collecting localities:

E. Java (1930-33): environs of Malang, at Poenten etc.-Madoera: Pamekasan (1937); on the beach (1939).-Centr. Java (1940-41): near Magelang, and Rawah Lakbok (on the boundary of West and Centr. Java).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: > 100 nos, from Madoera nos 77-98.