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V. Remarks on the Genera of Paderota^ Wulfenla^ and Hemimeris. By 

 James Edward Smkh, M, D, F. R. S. P, L, S. 



Read O&ober 7, 1800. 



JL HE genus oi Paderota was firft conftituted by Linnxus in his 

 A-cademical Diflertation entitled Plants rariores Africance^ publifhed 

 at Upfal in 1760, and reprinted in the 6th volume of the AmaenUaies 

 Academlcce in 1763. In the former edition the genus was called He- 

 mimeris, in the latter Paderota^ and the only fpecies there mentioned 

 bears the trivial name oi bon<^Jpei. This plant has never been well 

 known to botanifts in general. The original fpecimen probably 

 remained in Profeflbr Burmann's hands, along with the other plants 

 defcribed in the above-mentioned diflertation; but Linnaeus, I know 

 not at what period, obtained another, which is preferved in his 

 herbarium with the name oib.fpeim his own hand, and which he 

 afterwards defcribed in the Suppkmeniirm as Hemimeris diffufa. Un- 

 fortunately he negle6led to quote P^ederoia bona: fpei as a fynonym in 

 that work, and his fon, with all the materials before him, totally 

 overlooked it; fo that ProfefTor Murray, and other compilers, give 

 us the fame plant under both names. Even M. De JufTieu feems 

 not to have known this original fpecies of Pccdercta, His ideas of the 

 o-enus are tal'en ixovsWh^Buofiaroita ofMicheli, and the Pccderoia 

 lutea of Scopoli, the former of which is referred to P cider oia by 

 Linnaeus in the 2d edition of Sp. Plant, by the name of P. Bucnarota, 

 and the latter is called in his 2d Mantifa, P, Ageria, Thefe plants- 

 appear again in the Supplementum, with new and improved fpecific 

 charaders, under the names of P. candea and P. lutea^ and their 



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