Sir Hugh Low
It had been named by Sir Hugh Low in honor of his friend Sir James Brooke, the first white rajah of Sarawak. "Perhaps the most gorgeous of the native plants are the various species of the genus Rhododendron ," Low says elsewhere (3), then goes on to rate R. brookeanum the most beautiful of all.
Other plants named in honour of James Brooke -
Rajah Brooke's Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes rajah, a pitcher plant named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Trogonoptera brookiana, birdwing butterfly, named by Alfred R. Wallace
Brooke's Squirrel, Sundasciurus brookei
Trogonoptera brookiana, birdwing butterfly, named by Alfred R. Wallace
Brooke's Squirrel, Sundasciurus brookei
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