Benjamin Heyne FLS was a German botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a botanist to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency under the British East India Company. He collected and
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth
…species praesertim Indiae orientalis (a book of Indian flora). The latter work is primarily based on botanical specimens collected by Moravian missionary Benjamin Heyne (1770–1819). The botanical genus Rothia from the family Fabaceae is named after him…