Catalogue of Brazilian Plants - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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George Gardner’s Catalogue of Brazilian Plants Catalogue), a not insignificant part of his collection in the BM is missing. Since he had clearly worked on his own set, and that of Hooker, when he was in London, lectotypes for taxa in the ‘former papers’ should be very carefully selected. Harley (2000, pers. comm.) has indicated that Sandwith had two copies of determinations of Gardner’s collections, one at K the other at OXF (where Sandwith worked for a significant amount of time). A list of determinations of the Gardner collections in the Natural History Museum (BM) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was compiled by Hiern and transcribed, possibly by Sandwith, although it is unsigned. A PDF transcribed version of the Hiern determinations list is available. A separate, numbered, list of ferns was published as one of his earlier papers (Gardner, 1842b). The transcription The Catalogue has been fully transcribed by me and, having become reasonably familiar with his handwriting, there should be few errors – only a few words defeated me. Any errors that are present I apologize for. Layout The Catalogue has been rebound, and what was originally five registers, or sections, is bound in the same five parts in this volume. Gardner numbered each register and the position of the beginning of each of these is indicated in the text. A small, final, sixth section was added by Gardner to include ‘Medicinal and Economic plants of the north of Brazil’. This was never published by Gardner, but we intend to publish a paper on the plants mentioned. The numbers in this final section refer to Gardner’s collections in the Catalogue; several species are unnumbered. The Catalogue is laid out in three columns: number, taxon, locality. Occasional notes (common names, frequency, etc.) were largely placed against the locality and I have adopted this throughout, even though Gardner varied this in his earlier collections. The list is divided in several places, the breaks headed giving an indication of the broad location of the plants in the following part of the list, e.g. ‘Rio de Janeiro’, ‘Organ Mountains’, ‘Province of Piauhy’, etc. Any entries for which there is no information (e.g. family, genus, locality) I have inserted two em-rules ‘––’, rather than leaving the entry blank. Later in the list there is a clear indication of the division of plants from the state of Goiás into three lots. From Gardner’s correspondence it is clear that these represent lots of plants that Gardner provided for sale to interested parties. Corrections and Additions Gardner’s spelling of family, generic and species names is sometimes eratic. In most instances it is obvious to which taxa he was referring to, and the odd family names, which are quite variable in their spelling, are of little consequence. Some examples include: Apocyniaceae = Apocynaceae Cinchoniaceae = Rubiaceae Gramineaceae = Gramineae Melastomaceae = Melastomataeae 2 | P a g e Transcribed by D.J.N. Hind, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Orchideae = Orchidaceae George Gardner’s Catalogue of Brazilian Plants Some variations in the spelling of generic names have been highlighted by me with ‘[sic!]’ where the reader should be aware of a problem; I have not bothered substituting the correct names. I have made no attempt to correct the authorship of any of the names in Gardner’s list; many are quite erroneous. Gardner corrected and altered many of the entries himself and I have used a score-through method to show such changes; there are, however, other additions. These appear to be largely in Bentham’s handwriting and often appear as straight entries after Gardner’s. There is little difference in some of the handwriting so it is often very difficult to tell them apart; doubtless some have been wrongly attributed. In many instances they are against Leguminosae. I have placed all such additions in square brackets ‘[ ]’. Other problems The list does contain a number of problematical areas, not least duplicated numbering and ‘add-ins’ to the numbering system. Missing numbers are present, but relatively few; some large blocks are omitted, however. Gardner renumbered only a few series; the earlier error he noted in the body of the Catalogue and then corrected all of the affected numbers. I have also noticed whilst curating material in the Compositae that there are some split numbers which are not accounted for in the Catalogue. Researchers with ‘xxxx bis’ might not be able to locate all material. References Gardner, G. (1842a). Contributions towards a Flora of Brazil, being an enumeration of a series of collections of plants, made in various parts of Brazil, from 1836 to 1841; with brief descriptions of the new genera and species. London J. Bot. 1: 158–193. Gardner, G. (1842b). List of ferns from the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, collected in 1836. London J. Bot. 1: 545–548. Gardner, G. (1847). Contributions towards a Flora of Brazil, being the characters of several new species of Compositae, belonging to the tribes Vernoniaceae aad [sic!] Eupatorieaceae, from the Province of Goyaz; by George Gardner, Esq., F.L.S. Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. London J. Bot. 6: 417–449. Stafleu, F. A. & Cowan, R. S. (1976). In: Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Ed. 2. Volume 1: A–G. Reg. Veg. 94: 829–830 [Fielding]; 915–916 [Gardner]. 3 | P a g e Transcribed by D.J.N. Hind, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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