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Guide ERBARIUM H Van Royen Herbarium OYEN R G. Thijsse and J.F. Veldkamp AN National Herbarium of the Netherlands, V Leiden University Branch AIDC PUBLISHERP U R L 1 5H E R S S BRILLB RI LL National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden Guide to the microform collection AIDC P U B L I S H E R S2003 Introduction Van Royenand Linneaus also assisted in the production of Van Before the Van Royen Adrianus van Royen was born in Royen'sFlorae Leydensis Herbarium came to the National Leiden on I 1 November 1704. He Prodromus(1740) based on it.. In this Herbarium of the Netherlands it studied medicine and botany under work the species then growing in the was preserved in the Leiden Herman Boerhaave and obtained his Garden and around Leiden were Botanic Garden.. When visiting PhD. in 1728.. In 1732 he became enumerated according to the Linnean the Garden in 1824, J.A.. Professor in these subjects and as tenets. The value Linnaeus placed on Schultes communicated that the such he was one of the few allowed it is evident from the fact that it is collection of Van Royen was to make extensive collections in the always the first non-Linnean citation "still fairly large".. Amongst it he Leiden Botanic Garden, then a given in theSpecies Plantarum saw a parcel from Jac. Breyne centre of'novelties brought in by the (1753).. Several of the new species and one of Vaillant There were ships of the V.O.C. (Dutch East published in it are exclusively based parcels from Thunberg, on India Company) from all over the on Van Royen's collections of dried several of'which was written world.. and living plants.. "Plantae Capensis", as well as several parcels "Planta No wonder that Linnaeus during his Many sheets in A.. van Royen's Zeylanensis," one of them "ex frequent visits to Leiden between Herbarium have the plants mounted herbario Hermanniano" 1735 and 1738 struck up a close in the pots and other paraphernalia (Schultes, 1824)., friendship with this other dedicated that were customary in mid-18" botanist, which lasted a life time. Century Dutch collections. On these The specimens belonging to the This was the period in which sheets the text that was used for the Van Royen Herbarium are now Linnaeus formulated his ideas on Prodromusis written and kept separate. Before that they taxonomy and nomenclature that subsequently cited more or, less were incorporated in the general made him famous,. Together verbatim by Linnaeus in theSpecies collections. From time to time Linnaeus and Van Royen botanized Plantarum,.By consequence the still specimens which have in the Botanic Gardens of Leiden Herbarium contains a great number belonged to the Van Royens are and Amsterdam, the surrounding of syntypes and even holotypes of (re)discovered. Generally the areas and studied the numerous Linnean names and is therefore one sheets are annotated `Hb. Royen' natural objects available in the of the major herbaria to be consulted in a 19th century unknown world famous collections of the in solving problems in nomenclature handwriting.. In some cases these Dutch cabinets to which Van and typification. The Herbarium may annotations are clearly wrong Royen, because of'his social contain as many as 2 - 3000 and some sheets that have to be standing, had easy access.. During specimens relevant for the considered as genuine the last winter of his stay in Holland typification of Linnaean names Van Royen material lack this Linnaeus lived at Van Royen's (Wijnands, 1983). annotation.. house.. Also during that winter Linnaeus was a member of a The Herbarium It is not always easy to attribute medical fellowship with a, o.. The Herbarium passed on to Van specimens as having belonged to Gronovius and Van Swieten They Royen's nephew and successor, the holdings of Adriaan and met on Saturday evenings (Turner, David van Royen (1727 - 1799), who David van Royen. Sheets 1835), on which occasions Linnaeus greatly enlarged it.. David van Royen annotated with Linnean without doubt discussed his budding corresponded with Linnaeus as is binomina and references to later ideas. Van Royen and Linnaeus witnessed from the notes on the Linnean works, often the 2nd collaborated with Johannes Burman sheets.. It is known that in 1769, 1771 edition of theSpecies Plantarum, of Amsterdam in the production of and 1777 he received dried plants in the handwriting of Rumphius'Herbarium Amboinense from Ceylon.. Also, Governor Rijk David van Royen, can of course (1741 - 1755).. In all, a close social Tulbagh sent dried or living plants be attributed to their herbarium. and scientific relationship between from the Cape to Leiden'in 1752, The sheets on which in Adriaan Linnaeus and Adriaan van Royen which were collected by Auge. Later van Royen's handwriting a full and his collections is evident.. on Thunberg regularly sent dried reference is given to his plants from the Cape (Karsten, Prodromusof 1740, and to This herbarium is one of the few not 1939); he also donated a collection of earlier synonyms of e..g.., his own that Linnaeus could study Japanese plants in 1778 (Miquel, Hermann and Commelin, are extensively over 3 years of time.. He 1865).. obviously his own specimens.. Because the collections of'Adriaan Nicolaas Meerburg (1734 - 1814) specimens(Stafleu, 1969)..In his came into the possession of David it was Hortulanus of the Leiden De fructibus et seminibus is not exceptional that sheets are Botanical Garden under David van plantarum (1788 - 1791) found on which both handwritings Royen. It is known that he also was Gaertner described new taxa on are present.. in the possession of a herbarium. the basis of'seeds andfruits from Except specimens from Van Royen, the Van Royen collections.. At unspecified times collections his herbarium contained collections Thereforethispart of the Van from various sources have been from a..o.. Dillenius, and Haller, just Royencollections contains a incorporated in their herbarium: as the Van Royen collections. For numberof his types. specimens can be found originating this and above mentioned reasons.it fromH..Boerhaave, J. Burman, is obvious that one can not always be From the now remaining part it G. Clifford,11 Gronovius, absolutely certain that a specimen, can be deduced that this A. von Haller,P. Hermann, now preserved in the Van Royen carpological cabinet for the B.. deJussieu,J.G. Koenig, Herbarium, really belonged to the greater part was formed by seeds Fr..Ruysch, C..P. Thunberg, original holdings of the Van Royens.. from Ceylon. On the labels of J.P.. deTournefort,Seb. Vaillant, Such specimens have been included these Ceylonese specimens and manyothers..On some sheets for completeness sake.. J.G.. Koenig (1728 - 178.5) is several labels with different mentioned as collector. The handwritings arepasted..In these Apart from the sheets in the labels show dates between 1754 cases often more than one dried Rijksherbarium, other Van Royen and 1758, therefore it is plant of the same species is mounted material, both of Adriaan and David impossible that Koenig has been on thesheet.At the time the Van is represented in LINN, S-Linn, the collector. Koenig collected Royen Herbarium was part of the BM-Cliff, OXF-Sherard, G-Burman, on Ceylon in 1777, 1780 and collections of Leiden University, the G-DC, San Francisco-Houston.. 1781.. (Heniger, 1988).. Most dried plants belonging to the same probably these seeds are the species, but originating from Carpological collection remains of the seeds that were different collections, were probably The Van Royens were also in the sent each year from Ceylon to kept in a single folder. In the posession of a carpological the Botanical Gardens of process of remounting the collection. This collection has been Amsterdam and Leiden. This collections of the University for the studied by Joseph Gaertner carpological collection has also Rijksherbarium,these may have (1732 - 1791) during his visit to been included in the microfiche been mounted on one sheet.. Leiden in 1778.. Here and in the collection.. Botanical Garden he found many An additional complication in new fruits and seeds mainly from the G.. Thysse and J.F. Veldkamp attributing specimens to the Van East Indies of which he was allowed National Herbarium of the Royen herbarium are the specimens to take home representative Netherlands from the Meerburg Herbarium. Literature Heniger, J., 1988.. Botanisch onderzoek op Ceylon in de V..O..C.- tijd.. In: R.. Kromhout (red).. Het machtige Eylant. Ceylon en de V.O.C.. SDU.. `s Gravenhage. Karsten, M.C., 1939.. Carl Peter Thunberg.. An early investigator of'Cape Botany.. Journal of South African Botany 5: 1-27; 87-104; 105-155.. Miquel, F.A.W., 1865.. Verslag over den staat van's Rijks Herbarium to Leiden, en de aldaar verrigte werkzaamheden gedurende het jaar 1865.. Leiden.. Schultes, J.A., 18224..Auszug aus einem Schreiben anSe..Excellenz, den Herrn Grafen de Brayu.s.w. Flora 7(46): 721-727.. Stafleu, F.A., 1969.. Joseph Gaertner and his carpologica. Acta, Bot.. Neer'l. 18(1): 216-223.. Turner,D.,183.5.. Extracts from the literaryand scientific correspondenceof'Richard Richardson, M..D., F.R.S., of Brierley, Yorkshire. Yarmouth.. Wijnands,D.O.,1983.. The botanyof the Commelins,A.A. Balkema,Rotterdam.. Editor's note Family The family classification for the higher plants is roughly in accordance with Dalla Torre'sIndex Nominum. The fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns are classified under fungi, bryophyta, lichenes and pteridophyta, respectively. The fern-like plants such asEquisetumandLycopodiumare included underEquisetaceaeandLycopodiaceae. The algae are classified underChlorophyceae, Phaeophyceae,etc.. Herbarium (collector) This column specifies from whose herbarium the specimen originatedwhere relevant, with the name of the actual collector in parentheses.