John Henry Lace


John Henry Lace was a British botanist.

Biography

From 1881 he worked extensively in the Forest Service of India and became its inspector-general of forests. From 1908 to 1913 he served as chief forest conservator in Burma. He made botanical collections in Afghanistan, Baluchistan, India and Burma.
He married Minnie Richbell. They had three daughters, Violet Sylvia, Ethel Douglas, and Dorothy Mabel. In 1920 Ethel Douglas Lace married a grandson of General Sir John Watson.

Selected publications

  • with W. B. Hemsley:
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Eponyms

Thunbergia lacei GambleAganosma lacei RaizadaPinanga lacei A.J.Hend.Bidaria lacei M.A.Rahman & WilcockUechtritzia lacei C.JeffreyImpatiens lacei Hook.f.Hypericum lacei N.RobsonFimbristylis lacei TurrillTectaria lacei HolttumElaeocarpus lacei CraibAgapetes lacei CraibAcalypha lacei Hutch.Paraderris lacei AdemaSwertia lacei CraibOrnithoboea lacei CraibGomphostemma lacei MukerjeeMagnolia lacei FiglarPlatanthera lacei Rolfe ex DownieIschaemum lacei Stapf ex BorPolygala lacei CraibDionysia lacei S.ClayDelphinium lacei MunzCotoneaster lacei G.KlotzIxora lacei Bremek.Wightia lacei CraibParastyrax lacei W.W.Sm.Grewia lacei J.R.Drumm. & Craib