Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.
He is the nephew of Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie,, another botanist, who also collected plants with him.
He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar. Some of his works include La végétation malgache, Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar, and numerous volumes of the series .
The orchid genus Neobathiea was named in his honor, as was the indriid lemur Perrier's sifaka. Several species of Madagascar plants were named for him, including Adenia perrieri, Erythrina perrieri, Ensete perrieri, Euphorbia perrieri, Melanophylla perrieri, Podocarpus perrieri, Takhtajania perrieri, and Xerosicyos perrieri''.
