Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

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

Born: 1871, Prov. Jamagata, N. Hondo, Japan. Died: 1915, Taihoku, N. Formosa.

career:

Since 1901 Botanist of the Government of Formosa.¹

Several plants were named after him, e.g. Saccolabium kawakamii J.J.Sm.

Collecting localities:

1911. SE. Borneo: Martapoera (Oct. 6); SW. Celebes: Makassar, and prope Maros (Oct.); Centr. Java: Djokja; E. Java: Soerabaja, Pasoeroean (Nov. 3.), Tosari, G. Bromo; Ngempit (or? Kempit) and Kalibatoe (Nov.); W. Java: Buitenzorg, Tjibodas; Tjinjiroean (Dec. 4), Malabar. Plants of Lombock (= ? Lesser Sunda Isls), and the Malay Peninsula: Kuala Lumpur (Batu Cave etc.), Singapore, were collected too.

collections:

Herb. Taihoku; dupl. in Herb. Bog. [BO].²

literature:

(1) T. Kawakami: ‘A list of plants of Formosa’ (1910).

(2) T. Kawakami: ‘On some Celebes plants’ (Bot. Mag. Tokyo 26, 1912, p. 49-50).

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.