'Specimens, Delagoa Bay', collected by John Forbes

Title

'Specimens, Delagoa Bay', collected by John Forbes

Record type

Archive

Original Reference

RHS/Col/3/4/22

Date

1-7 Mar 1823

Scope & content

Page removed from a notebook and written across both pages

List of specimens from Delagoa Bay [Maputo Bay, Mozambique], numbered (specimens 1-24), with date, number, class number, order, genus, species and additional remarks. Includes a species of Gloriosa ('sandy soil, flower elegant orange scarlet') and several unnamed plants ('sandy soil, flower yellow', '20 feet, sandy soil, no flower', '10 feet, sandy soil, no flower', '18 feet, flower white, fragrant') [here the list includes 19 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)