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382 LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 
The beautiful family of Orchidec, which has since engaged 
the attention of Richard, Brown, and Lindley, was first illus- 
trated by the excellent Swartz; new Genera were formed 
upon certain fixed principles, figures of them were published, 
and many novel species added, especially West Indian ones, 
in the ** Genera et Species Orchidearum, systematice coordina- 
tarum, 1806.” The Genera of Phaenogamous Plants which 
were constituted by him are Acidoton, Ardisia, Brosimum, 
Bumelia, Calyptranthes, Cephielis, Chloranthus, Chloris, Coc- 
cosypselum, Corycium, Cranichis, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, 
Diplodium, Disperis, Ernodia, Epistylium, Hedyosmon, Hed- 
wigia, Hoffinannia, Hypelate, Labatia, Lacistema, Legnotis, — 
Leptanthes, Linociera, Lithophila, Meriana, Meyera, Microtea, — 
Myrodia, Ochroma, Oncidium, Petaloma, Picramnia, Ptery- 
godium, Rochefortia, Solandra, Stelis, Stylidium, Stylosanthes, 
T'anüecium, Thrinaz, Tetranthus, Tricera, Trixis, Valentinia, 
Vanilla, and Wallenia. And all these Genera were so care- 
fully elaborated, that few indeed of them have been contro- 
verted, while the names of several are already become quite 
familiar to the botanist, as if founded by the Princeps Bo- 
tanicorum. 3 a 
The treasures brought by Swartz from the West Indies, to 
after having been diligently examined and compared with specl_ 
mens and descriptions of other authors, were first published 
in the * Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, seu Prodromus 
descriptionum Vegetabilium, que sub itinere in Indiam occiden- 
talem 1783—1787, digessit O. Swartz, Holm. Y118;". then in 
his * Observationes Botanice, Erlang. 1791,” and lastly, in his 
= well-known “Flora Indie Occidentalis, Vol. 1—5, Erlang. 
-= 1797—1806.” At different times, and in other publications, — 
the Genera Phyllachne, Forstera, Ehrharta, Stylidium, Linco- 
.. hia, Ochroma, Stylosanthes, Solandra, and Chloranthus, were fi ully 
described and illustrated by excellent figures drawn by him- 
He was author also of the designs and descriptions of 
ants in the ** Svensk Botanik,” a work published, as i$. 
after the model of the English Botany; and t 
