M. R. Henderson

Murray Ross Henderson (1899–1982) was a Scottish botanist who did most of his botanical work in the Straits Settlements and South Africa.

He took a position as a botanist in Malaya in 1921 and became curator of the herbarium in the Singapore Botanical Gardens in 1924.

On the invasion of British Malaya by Japan in World War II, Henderson escaped from Singapore to Sumatra.

He authored a number of floras and other botanical texts including the 3 volume "Malayan Wild Flowers"[5] and "Malayan Orchid Hybrids" (editor).

[6] He was honoured in 1998, with the naming of plant species from Malaya after him, Emarhendia.