Rockia sandwicensis (Hillebr.) Heimerl
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Nyctaginaceae
Rockia sandwicensis (Hillebr.) Heimerl -
Collection Notes
[Pacific] [news paper article]
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Identifiers
NY Barcode: 04376325
Occurrence ID: db975f27-310e-42dd-a028-b34914532ccc
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Caryophyllales
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Family
Nyctaginaceae
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All Determinations
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Distribution
British interests to Hongkong appeal to be *xelatjvfly^mcohcertt|c[. over expansion of Japanese aggression to include south-ChtojafDk Joseph« ;F. Rock, internationally known: botanist and explorer and formeap. reSi^ dent of Hawaii, said today. ; Dr. Rock arrived from the, Orient on the China Clipper Monday. 8«^ will remain. indefinitely in Hono-, r-^—..... ;-----— *? *1|| 'lulu, he said.. — W” ——rggaEsr— Since 1920. the former University . * ;<fl ! of Hawaii fsicuity mexnber has speut J&r * ' 9 ¡most of his time in Cliina. Recently * he has made his headquarters to -L-- V; * »?*-*> ' «?i 1 Xunnan-Fu, capital of Yunnan prov- , + '?c \ '>«1 ¡toce. •’•••> I if* «&? V ;V I • Observers to Hongkong appeared 1 W& WM?' r Vv - / * " to be little disturbed, by prepara- Ac: .V^Syiwnral'l tions for the Japanese attack, on , Canton, he said. I "Sett Out” Seen § .^lany 'Well informed persons, he said, shared the .belief that Japan’s south China campaign had been, preceded by§ j^Htotoary negotia- tion jyhich hadresulted to Canton being “Sold out.’’::>v:i- | “Resident^ of -• ^ongk6ng,,r Dr. Rock said,; “appeared to be more concerned. over a possible shortage of vegetables. They ordered a sup- ply shijpped from Manila i on the President Coolidgie, and ? the Jap- anese offered to iship vegetables from Formosa.” Dr. Rock was to' Yunnan-Fu when Japanese glanes bombed the United, universities of -that ,city m, Ti>rnt to Page 4, Columns Dr. Joseph Rock 04376325 rof HaWnii fttnr K|o 1913 asía 1 teacher^ professor of systematic 'botany, bobbed the air field? Sincé i9á0 heWbéén ah agri- ly smashing k number oi culture- explorer^with the offic^ of! planes which' had not been the foreign seed and plant .introdue-’ swooped low mid machtoeguniied .Geographic' society’s, Yuftnan-Tihet I .teachers an4 stu^ntS; ? who were ^peditiónj 1923-24; 1}!rectó¿;- of tfiei ,g&foí cSíSi of *Árüold drboretum-Harvard uni-1 no , capital, of. veráity botanical and zoological ex* j, .pOL, French In Czechoslovakian éiti&Si íinf:- És&. Hanoi Maneuvers pedition to West China and Tibet* :#f 1024-27;'- National. Geographic ¿Bó* ciety’s Southwest Chgria-Tibet- ekr Japan, he said,, had maneuvered .„edition, 192&; le¿der of the ¿Indo-China to attack Hanoi &e [moment the European war was de- |&|ifSEIS IW JS? I iclared. • ÍVérsity of £&lifornia Yunnan-^ibet ,? Before leaving the’ Orient br ibotanmcaL expedition, 1932-1933. ¡Rock transferred his valuable co.1t ' He is the author of several books Section of book?, more, than 1,000 Including: ¿The. Indigenous strees of Volumes, to Hahoi to removí them Hawaii, and A History ^nd Geog- 'from the range of Japanese bon^bs. raphy of Northwest Yunnan,’ China, fjN WaS‘ botanist^ for the., At present he; 11 the hoiifié- guest . J-pawaiian board of agriculture^ of Dr Harold <h-- Lyon, director rof forestry from 1908 to. 1911, He Was ^the HSPA experiment station; . ' I# faculty member of the herbarfumt £TTO DEGENEF?' 1 PLANTS OF HAWAII EX HERBARIUM OTTO DEGENER Nj.?sy¿ 2^ ^4, / • fjCKxxrtXjUy^ Collected Jbf OTTO?, I^GflNiR t ~ CMany plants desci¡bid m “SPlants Haw. Nat. Parkjr and “Flora Hawailensls” ty Otto Degener, Honolulu, T.H.) 04376325
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Rockia sandwicensis (Hillebr.) Heimerl