This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857– 1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service. He was of Irish stock, and was educated in Ireland, but qualified in medicine in Edinburgh and became a fluent speaker of Chinese. He arrived in Shanghai in 1881 and from 1882–9 he was assistant medical offi cer in Yichang. He collected extensively in Szechuan and Hubei. He was posted to the island of Huinan (modern-day Hainan), where he collected 750 plants, but was invalided home with malaria. He was transferred to Taiwan (1892–4) where he made further collections and published Notes on economic botany in China (1893). He returned to England, studied law and became a member of the Middle Temple, but after a year returned to China as acting chief commissioner of customs from 1895–1900. He continued collecting. In total, he sent back 15,000 herbarium specimens and 500 plants to Kew, from which 25 new genera and 500 new species were described, but it was EH Wilson who later sent back living specimens of these plants. The next two years were spent at Kew and at the French National School of Forestry at Nancy, during which he commenced to co-author (with HJ Elwes) Trees of Great Britain and Ireland (7 vols, 1913). He became professor of forestry at Cambridge University, (1907–13), then professor of forestry at the Royal College of Science (merged into University College in 1926), Dublin, until his retirement in 1927. His personal herbarium of 10,000 specimens was bequeathed to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

Berries contain calcium oxalate crystals and may irritate the mouth and cause abdominal discomfort if ingested by humans and domestic pets.

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