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Martin

 

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

 

career:

Coffee-planter in Java and manager of an estate in Sarawak, NW. Borneo.

Shorea martiniana Scheff. was named after him (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936).

 

collections:

In the years 1866-69 he sent several cases containing important plants from NW. Borneo (Sarawak) and from Dutch W. Borneo (Sambas), among which many species of Shorea, pinang and rattan, to Buitenzorg.1 Material of some specimens was inserted in the H.B. series of Herb. Bog. [BO]. Material in alcohol in Herb. Leiden [L].

 

literature:

(1) cf. Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 31, 1870, p. 350, and l.c. 32, 1873, p. 408.