Talk:Masters 122 (1857)
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue places the plant on Banks of rivers. at the villages of Golaghat, with no word of cultivation. A riverbank is a habitat outside cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the catalogue's transcription of the label; it does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a landrace or a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
The point 26.51, 93.97 is the town of Golaghat, OpenStreetMap node 245748937. The herbarium's own point for the sheet, 26.5166666667, 93.9666666667, is a GeoNames look-up of the town with a stated uncertainty of 25 km; it lies 1.0 km from the town's node, so the two agree, and the page carries the town as the place it is. The catalogue's Golaghat villages places the gathering among the villages of Golaghat, not in the town itself, and the uncertainty allows for that. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 10 km.
Editorial treatment
Date. The catalogue gives May 1857; the field stores the month.
Collector. The herbarium links its Masters, J.W. to John White Masters (1791 or 1792 to 1873), an English botanist who went to Assam in June 1839 as superintendent of the Assam Company and lived at Nazira (Wikidata Q18954362; English Wikipedia, Nazira). The collector field takes the catalogue's initials.
Place. The locality field takes the catalogue's words; the district field is today's.
Image. No image of the sheet was read for this page; its values are the holder's catalogue's. The catalogue publishes no image.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:59, 16 October 2026 (+07)