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a list of the phanerogams, ferns and fern-allies commonly cultivated in, the indigenous to, or Lower Provinces and Chittagong; with definitions of the natural orders and genera, and keys to the genera and species

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David Prain

Published by Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.

1903

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David Prain (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish physician remembered as a noted amateur botanist. He worked for many years in India working in the Calcutta Botanical Garden and involved in cinchona cultivation in Darjeeling.

In 1884 Prain was recommended to Sir George King (1840–1909), home on leave from his position as director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta and looking for a medical student with botanical interests to enter the Indian Medical Service. Prain duly went to India as a physician / botanist in the Indian Medical Service, and in 1887 was appointed curator of the Calcutta herbarium. In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Argyll Robertson, Alexander Crum Brown, and Sir William Turner.

In 1898 he was promoted to Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta as well as the Botanical Survey of India, and superintendent of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal, remaining there until 1905. From 1898 to ...

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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: Prain

996 plant species named BY Prain and 135 plant species named AFTER Prain.

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996 Plant species named BY Prain
Source: International Plant Name Index

The following 996 plant species names have been described and named BY Prain (Prain)

 

Acacia inopinata Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66: 507 (1897).

Acacia kingii Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66: 506 (1897).

Acalypha capensis Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1913(1): 15 (1913).

Acalypha entumenica Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1913(1): 22 (1913).

Acalypha wilmsii Pax ex Prain & Hutch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1913(1): 24 (1913).

Acanthus platyphyllus (Murb.) Prain, Index Kew. Suppl. 4: 2 (1913).

Acroceras Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 9(4): 621 (1920).

Acrymia Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1908(3): 114 (1908).

Acrymia ajugiflora Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1908(3): 115 (1908).

Adenanthera borneensis Brace ex Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66(1): 244, in clavi. (1897).

Adenocline bupleuroides Prain, in Ann. Bot. 1913, xxvii. 407.

Adenocline stricta Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912(7): 338 (1912).

Adenocline violifolia Prain, in Ann. Bot. 1913, xxvii. 403.

Adenocline zeyheri Prain, in Ann. Bot. 1913, xxvii. 408.

Adenophora prenanthoides Prain ex Diels, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 176, nomen subnudum (1912).

Adenosma inopinata Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 72(2): 16 (1903).

Aeschynanthus pusillus Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 67: 299 (1898).

Afzelia bakeri Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66: 209, in obs. (1897).

Agapetes desmogyne King & Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 67(2): 298, in obs., nomen provis. (1898).

Agapetes pottingeri Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 67: 296 (1898).

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