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BoRONIA PINNATA. HawTHORN-SCENTED 
BorRONIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
OcTanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 4. Anthere infra apicem filamentorum 
pedicellate. S¥y/us ex apice germinis breviflimus., Stigma ca- 
pitatum. Cap/. 4, coalite. Sem, arillata, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
BORONIA innata ; foliis impari-pinnatis integerrimis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus dichotomis, filamentis apice obtufis glan- 
dulofis, Smith's Traés, p. 290. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p. 
349. Bot. Repo. 58. Venten. Malmaif. 38. 
The genus Boronia was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident 
of the Linnean Society, in a volume of Traéts relating to 
Natural Hiftory, publifhed in 1798: and dedicated to the 
memory of Francis Borone, a native of Milan, who, 
though of humble origin, had an a€tive mind, zealous in the 
acquirement of natural knowledge, in the purfuit of which he 
loft his life at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens, 
during his attendance on the late Profeffor SrstHorp, after 
having accompanied Profeffor Arzzxius upon a botanical ex- 
pedition to Sierra-Leone. Linnvus has, in feveral inftances, 
named plants to the memory of young Botanifts, who unfor- 
tunately perifhed in the purfuit of knowledge ; honouring them 
with the title of martyrs to the fcience. Among thelfe, his 
worthy preceptor’ does not hefitate to reckon Borone, * whofe 
indefatigable zeal and fingular acutenefs,” the Prefident ob- 
ferves, * would foon have procured him other claims to the 
: honour 
