Cowley, E. (f. 1890s)

Overseer, Kamerunga State Nursery, North Queensland; an assiduous collector of Australian plants. In May 1893 he went to New Guinea at the request of the Queensland Government to collect samples of sugar-canes for trial in Australia.

COLLECTIONS. During his New Guinea trip he made general, not extensive, botanical collections; they are incorporated in Herb. Brisbane.

LITERATURE.
(1) cf. List in Ann. Rep. Dept Agric. Brisbane 1893/94, p. 43.
(2) cf. Journ. Bot. 58, 1920, p. 193; and Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 34, 1922, p. 49-51.

Source: Extracted from: Flora Malesiana, series 1, vol. 1, 1950

Collecting localities for 'Cowley, E.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 349 specimens