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Rose Monteiro (née Bassett) (1 May 1840 – 11 February 1898) was a late 19th Century plant collector and naturalist who spent several years in Lourenço Marques on Delagoa Bay, Mozambique. Monteiro was born in London. She married Joachim John Monteiro, a British mining engineer and naturalist. They spent several years in Angola where he husband worked as a mining engineer and naturalist. Then in 1876 they relocated to Lourenco Marques where her husband worked as a labor recruitment agent for the Cape Colony until his untimely death in 1878.