'Specimens, Mafimale or Mahomet's Island, Island Raza or Flat Island', collected by John Forbes

Title

'Specimens, Mafimale or Mahomet's Island, Island Raza or Flat Island', collected by John Forbes

Record type

Archive

Original Reference

RHS/Col/3/4/21

Date

12 Feb 1823

Scope & content

Page removed from a notebook and written across both pages

List of specimens collected from Mafimale or Mahomet's Island [Ilha de Mafamede, Mozambique], numbered (specimens 1-6), with date, number, class number, order, genus, species and additional remarks. Includes three plants in the order Monogyna ('10 feet, perianthum inferior, cylindrical, four toothed with a deep gash on each side', 'flower yellow, procumbent, sand', 'root bulbous, flower brownish green, pendulous'), Casuarina africana [Casuarina equisetifolia] ('trunk 50 feet, clean of branches, sheer sand'), Phyllanthus niruri ('wet sand') and a plant in the order Frustrania ('flower yellow, sand')

List of specimens collected from Island Raza or Flat Island [Ilha Epidendro, Mozambique], numbered (specimens 1-10), with date, number, class number, order, genus, species and additional remarks. Includes a species of Cassia ('15 feet, flower yellow, sandy soil'), a species of Justicia ('15 inches, flower elegant scarlet, large, bracteas purple, sand and decayed leaves'), a plant in the order Cyperacea ('sand') and unnamed plants ('12 feet, no flower, sandy soil', '18 feet, no flower, sandy soil') [here the list includes 5 more plants]

Extent

1 page (1 sheet)

Is part of

RHS archive: plant collector papers

Repository

Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library

Copyright

Royal Horticultural Society

Credit Line

RHS Lindley Collections

Usage terms

Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)