| Citation | Director of Gardens and Forests, Straits Settlements. Mr Ridley has made numerous contributions to Botanical knowledge, of which the following are among the more important: - 'teratological Notes on Plants' (Journ Linn Soc, Botany, vol xx, 1884); 'Cyperaceae of the West Coast of Africa in the Welsitsch Herbarium' (Trans Linn Soc, vol xxii, 1884); 'Notes on the New and Rare Monocotyledonous Plants from Madagascar' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xx,1884); 'The Freshwater Hydrocharideae of africa and its Islands' (ibid, vol xxii, 1886); 'Botany of the Roraima Expedition' (Trans Linn Soc, vol ii, 1887: Orchidaceae, Cyperaceae); 'Notes on Self-Fertilisation and Cleistogamy in Orchids' (Journ Linn Soc); 'Botany and Geology of Fernando de Noronha' (ibid, Botany, vol xxvii, 1890); 'The Grasses and Sedges of the Malay Peninsula' (Journ Roy Asiatic Soc, Straits Branch, vol xxiii, 1891); 'Flora of the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula' (Trans Linn Soc, vol iii, 1893); 'Orchideae and Apostasiaceae of the Malay Peninsula' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xxxii, 1894); 'Two New Species of Thismia' (Annals of Botany, vol ix, 1895); 'Enumeration of Orchids from Borneo' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xxi, 1896). |